CFP: [20th] 5/7/08; MSA X 11/13/08-11/16/08
Photography, Modernism, Feminism
In her essay "From Clementina to Kasebier: The Photographic Attainment of
the ’Lady Amateur,’†art historian Carol Armstrong argues that
photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lady Hawarden Clementina, and
Gertrude Kasebier took astute advantage of photography's low place on art's
hierarchical scales to assert themselves as artists. The work of these
women, therefore, indirectly calls attention to the relationship between
photography and the emergence of feminism in the U.S. and Britain in the
nineteenth- and early twentieth- centuries. This panel seeks to bring
modernist literature composed by women into the relationship between