Thursday 11 May 2017

Book Review of Girl on Girl. Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze

11/05/17
Girl on Girl. Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze.
By Charlotte Jansen
Hardback, 192 pages
ISBN 9781780679556
Published by Laurence King Publishing
£19.99 retail


“We see photographs of women every day, but we are used to looking at them in a few specific contexts,” writes editor Charlotte Jansen, in the introduction to her new book, Girl on Girl. Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze. “On products and billboards, in shop windows and magazine covers, in erotica and pornography.” The premise behind the book, however, is that there is a rapidly growing number of women out there photographing women, creating images where both the subject and the “gaze” are female. “At times,” Jansen continues, “there seems to be little difference between how women photograph women and how men photograph women, but women have the right to self-objectify and to exploit without critique, just as men have been allowed to do since the earliest forms of art emerged”. And here, Jansen offers 40 international female photographers the opportunity to present their work, their aims and their motivations neutrally and without critique, albeit opening themselves up for critical response.



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