Fascinating Books about Women and Photography in the First Half of the 20th Century
Photography and art journalist Carol Kino's fascinating double biography of the McLaughlin twins, Double Take, comes out March 5. The book, perfect for fans of Ninth Street Women and The Barbizon, is a window into the golden era of magazine photography. We caught up with her and asked for some book recommendations about women's vital role in the history of photography. Here's what she shared.
6 books
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Publishers Weekly & TOWN&COUNTRY
Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
Carol KinoThe McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, Carol provides a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women’s publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable accomplishments to vivid life.
Publishers Weekly & TOWN&COUNTRYHardcover, 2024
$29.00Member price:$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A History of Women Photographers
Naomi Rosenblum"Dr. Naomi Rosenblum’s tome about women photographers from the daguerreotype to the 21st century. This is the book you need if you want to see what was left out of all the others."
Hardcover, 2010
$75.00Member price:$50.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The New Woman Behind the Camera
Andrea Nelson"National Gallery of Art curator Andrea Nelson (and other contributors) focus on how the so-called New Woman of the early twentieth century influenced photography between the 1920s and the 1950s."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art & National Gallery of ArtHardcover, 2020
$60.00Member price:$35.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Portrait of Myself
Margaret Bourke-White"Margaret Bourke-White, who photographed the Fort Peck dam for the cover of the first Life magazine in 1936, explains how she learned to use a camera and became a pioneering photojournalist in this engaging, inspiring autobiography."
JerseyStyle Photography & leezieOut of stock
The Lives of Lee Miller
Antony Penrose"Antony Penrose, son of the photographer Lee Miller, delves into his mother’s archives after her death to discover her complex past: Jazz Age model, artists’ muse, successful portrait and fashion photographer, and fearless World War II photojournalist who recorded some of the first images of the concentration camps."
Paperback, 2021
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
Carl Sferrazza Anthony"In this fascinating biography, Carl Sferrazza Anthony charts Jackie Kennedy’s attempt to find herself as an inquiring paparazzi photographer before she became a political wife and a photographic icon."
Katie Couric & CBS Sunday Morning 🌞Out of stock