Female View: Modefotografinnen von der Moderne bis zum Digitalen Zeitalter

Using exemplary positions, this book traces the transformation of the photographic image from the 1940s to the present day: from the fashion magazine to the showroom and the coffee table book to videos and digital self-staging in social media today.

Female View puts the focus on women fashion photography. Although this medium has been shaped by female photographers for decades, a large number of publications or exhibitions have focused primarily on the male gaze of the female body. Numerous female fashion photographers worked for influential magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue, thus shaping the style of their time.

This publication is published on the occasion of the exhibition: Female View. Female Fashion Photographers from Modernism to the Digital Age.

Artists shown in the exhibition: Lillian Bassman, Sibylle Bergemann, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Madame d’Ora, GABO, Ingeborg Hoppe, Nadine Ijewere, Liv Liberg, Ute Mahler, Charlotte March, Lee Miller, Sarah Moon, Amber Pinkerton, Elizaveta Porodina, Regina Relang, Bettina Rheims, Charlotte Rohrbach, Alice Springs (June Newton), Deborah Turbeville, Ellen von Unwerth and Yva.

Edited by Antje-Britt Mählmann. Design by Julia Wagner. Texts by Antje-Britt Mählmann, Nadine Barth, Eugenie Shinkle & Diana Weis.