MILAN: A photograph of a woman, wearing a white chador with an ornate pattern and standing in front of a hanging Persian rug, is perhaps the most striking image of a new exhibition in Milan that aims to shed light on women’s lives in today’s Iran. The woman is photographed from behind and the pattern of her chador, which completely covers her, seems to intertwine with the
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This cover image released by Prestel shows Women Street Photographers, a collection of photos edited by Gulnara Samoilova. (Prestel via AP) March 08, 2021 - 7:06 AM
âWomen Street Photographers,â edited by Gulnara Samoilova (Prestel)
When Parisian authorities issued a decree in 1800 requiring women to obtain a permit to wear pants in public, the French writer George Sand defied the order. She dressed in menâs clothes and walked from one end of Paris to the other, later writing about the exhilarating feeling of being able to go wherever she wanted, whenever she wanted, and not have anyone pay attention.
Melissa Breyer, a writer and photographer, recounts that bit of feminist history in an excellent introduction to a new book, âWomen Street Photographers,â arguing that Sandâs âperipatetic explorationsâ of 1830s Paris helped pave the way for later generations of women who would use cameras, not pens, to
Melissa Breyer, a writer and photographer, recounts that bit of feminist history in an excellent introduction to a new book, Women Street Photographers, arguing that Sand’s peripatetic explorations of 1830s Paris helped pave the way for later generations of women who would use cameras, not pens, to chronicle their impressions of public life.
The book showcases the work of 100 women around the world today using cameras and cellphones to capture the lyrical moments of everyday life what Henri Cartier-Bresson once called the decisive moment. The pictures tender and funny, mysterious and unsettling were curated by Gulnara Samoilova, a former Associated Press photographer and founder of the Women Street Photographers project.
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