User:Cstanton19/Women photographers

Draft for Women photographers (adding to existing page)

Existing section for Surrealism:

A number of women used photography as a medium for expressing their interest in Surrealism. Claude Cahun (1894–1954) from France is remembered for her highly staged self-portraits which she began taking in the 1920s.

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Claude Cahun-

Cahun is known for her self portraiture that she used as a way to perform gender identity and playing with surrealist ideals in her work.

Existing Contemporary section is below:

Contemporary women photographers continue to break ground in the field of photography. Annie Leibovitz captures arresting, usually posed, images of the famous and the unknown, publishing photographs for the covers of Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Rolling Stone, representing a broad survey of American popular culture.

Cindy Sherman's work turns still photography into performance art to explore traditional and pop-cultural myths of femininity. Her work implicitly examines issues of identity and stereotype, representation and reality, the function of mass media, and the nature of portraiture.

The contemporary works of women photographers are numerous. Women only photography exhibits are controversial yet essential to highlight the imbalance of male domination in the field throughout the history of photography, and are becoming increasingly more common.

Some contemporary women photographers of note who were born in the 1950s and early 1960s include: Rineke Dijkstra, Nan Goldin, Jitka Hanzlová, An-My Lê, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, Bettina Rheims, Ellen von Unwerth, JoAnn Verburg and Carrie Mae Weems. Younger contemporary photographers (born in the early 1970s) include Rinko Kawauchi, Hellen van Meene, Zanele Muholi, Viviane Sassen and Shirana Shahbazi.

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Some recent contemporary photographers include Petra Collins, Juno Calypso, Delphine Fawundu, Shirin Neshat, Sophie Calle, Laura Aguilar and Genevieve Cadieux. They are just some of the female photographers working today in contempory photography.