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Download or read book Women Seeing Women written by Elisabeth Bronfen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is dedicated to pictures of women taken by women. It begins withhotographs by the two great female photographers of the 19th century, Clementna Lady Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron, and covers a period of over 100 yars to the present day.;Some 160 images by 90 photographers present us with th entire spectrum of female self-definition both behind and in front of the camra. As such, the four major themes of social reality, the family, the female bdy and virtual reality come to the fore with their multifarious pictures fromhe worlds of art, literature, fashion, dance and show business. There are selfprotraits as well as female photographers' portraits of female photographers,aughters, mothers and, of course, several important female figures including Vrginia Woolf, Greta Garbo, Martha Graham, Simone de Beauvoir, Maria Callas, Maonna, Hillary Clinton, and even Her Majesty the Queen.