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Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism

Item date(s): 2006

Carol McCusker  - (Edited by)
Viki Goldberg  - (Essay by)
Melanie Light  - (Essay by)
Valery Stigneev  - (Essay by)
Val Williams  - (Essay by)
Bonnie Yochelson  - (Essay by)


Pages: 187pp
Size: 290mm

Sub-type: Photo book

Place publication: San Diego, California
Publisher: Museum of Photographic Arts
ISBN 1-878062-06-9

Additional notes:
Breaking the Pioneering Women in Photojournalism celebrates six Therese Bonney, Olga Lander, Hansel Mieth, Grace Robertson, Esther Bubley, and Margaret Bourke-White. It focuses on their work from the 1930s to the mid-1950s, when each was at the peak of her creative power. For a curator and historian of photography, few things are more rewarding than introducing the work of a photographer lost to history, or inviting a deeper look into a career given only cursory attention. Two of the featured photographers—Therese Bonney and Olga Lander—are unknown in the larger circle of photography history; the present volume introduces a wider audience to their World War II images. The remaining photographers, with [the exception of Margaret Bourke-White, have had scant attention paid them in the last forty years. The idea for this book and exhibition began germinating when I first encountered the life and work of Therese Bonney in 2002; it continued through the discovery of the obscure or lost careers of other women photojournalists. That they are all women is significant. I mean to redress years of neglect, while considering whether women contribute something unique to the medium.

Ref: GB/80085



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