Feminist Photography refers to photographic practices developed within the context of second-wave feminism from the late 1960s onward.
Not a label for work by women photographers but a practice that critically asks how photography has represented women's bodies, domestic labor, desire, advertising, family, and work — recasting photography as a site where the power of the gaze operates.
Feminist photography's intervention was to show that how photography represents women — bodies, labor, desire, family — is not a natural given but a political construction that can be contested, reframed, and held up for critical examination.
Feminist Photography refers to photographic practices developed within the context of second-wave feminism from the late 1960s onward.*1
On this site, photographers connected to Feminist Photography appear mainly in 1970–1980s, often overlapping with Pictures Generation and Conceptual Art.*2
Feminist Photography often overlaps with Pictures Generation and Conceptual Art. Reading those pages together makes it easier to see where method, institution, or critical language begins to diverge.*5
Barbara Kruger made the production of photographic meaning—through writing, typography, layout, and circulation—central to her art, drawing on her experience in magazine design …
Cindy Sherman transformed photography from a medium associated with evidence, likeness, and authorial self-expression into a way of testing how cinema, advertising, magazines …
Mayumi Hosokura works with nudes, portraits, plants, minerals, neon, selfies, and sculpture through color, photobooks, digital collage, and exhibition space. Through NEW SKIN …
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