Twelve women photographers demonstrate their creative ingenuity and raw technical skill.
Julia Curl
Julia Curl is a writer and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA in literary studies and BFA in photography from The New School in 2021. She is the former Managing Editor of Poets & Traitors Press, and currently works for The Filmmaker’s Cooperative and The John Giorno Foundation. Her paper “Through A Glass, Enviously: Yuri Olesha’s Photographic Distortion of Reality” recently appeared in Johns Hopkins University’s Macksey Journal.
Artist Sophie Calle Took a Job as a Maid to Spy on the Guests
Calle’s methodical analysis makes the reader more curious about the artist herself than the guests she spies on.
Challenging the Perception that Photographs Present an Objective Vision
Imagining the photographic print as a singular art object.
Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due
The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum aims to move beyond Euro-American historical narrative.
The First Museum Exhibition of Brazilian Modernist Photography Outside Brazil
This retrospective of the work from a São Paulo photo club is a reminder that Modernism was not solely a European phenomenon.
Nona Faustine’s Family Album
Faustine’s depiction of household shared by three generations of Black women presents matriarchy as a source of power.