User:Dayligone/gap analysis

Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Neeta Madahar


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

The gap that I found was with the artist Neetah Madahar page, in the sense that one does not exist. I found this out while browsing the Brooklyn Museum’s Feminist Artists page. While scrolling through the various artists, Madahar’s work caught my eye. While reading her biography, I saw that not only had won prestigious fellowships and has been featured in many mainstream magazines including the New York Times, but she was also listed as “Portfolio magazine’s special issue on the UK’s 50 most significant contemporary photographers” (Brooklyn Museum). Because of this, I surely thought Madahar would already have a page on Wikipedia, but to my surprise no such page existed. I decided to do a little digging into Portfolio magazine’s list on the “UK’s 50 most significant contemporary photographers” and found that by contrast, almost every male artist listed had a listing on Wikipedia. This highlights the persistent inequality between men and women (especially women of color, which Madahar is) in the art world; male artists continue to receive more attention and recognition than their female peers.


 * Propose a paragraph of new or substantially edited content based on reliable sources. (If you are editing existing content, post the current version along with your edited version, and clearly mark which is which.)

Neetah Madahar (born in 1966 in London, England) is a female artist who works in the United Kingdom. Madahar works mainly with photography and plays with the contradictions between nature and the artificial.

 Life and Career 

Madahar was born in London, England in 1966 to parents in a Hindu background. Throughout her life, Madahar’s parents discouraged her pursuit of the arts and it wasn’t until age twenty that she began taking drawing and painting classes. Later, she began her studies at Bath College in 1996, graduated from the Winchester School of Art in 1999, and in 2003 graduated from School of Museum of Fine Arts. Madahar has stated that her biggest influences are Cecil Beaton, George Hurrell, Angus McBean, and Horst P Horst. Throughout her career, her work has been used in high profile magazines such as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Time Out. Her work work is exhibited in many collections “including Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum in Massachusetts, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.” In the 50th issue of Portfolio magazine, she was listed as one of Britain’s top 50 contemporary photographers.


 * List the reliable sources that could be used to improve this gap. (You can use the Cite tool from the editing toolbar above to input and format your sources.)


 * http://www.purdyhicks.com/display.php?aID=16
 * http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/neeta-madahar/
 * https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/neeta-madahar
 * http://www.saulgallery.com/works-by/neeta-madahar/show:biography
 * http://www.portfoliocatalogue.com/50/index.php