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Study Day: Shadow Sisters: Women in the History of Photography

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Date: 
Friday, 26 February 2010
Time: 
1.30 - 6.00PM
Marta Astfalck-Vietz Selbstmord in Spiritus (1927)

FREE

This study day will bring together four young art historians, based at the University of Glasgow, to discuss the risqué, macabre, surreal, and lyrical contributions that women have made to the history of photography, both before and behind the lens. Join Stills for this lively 'show and tell' session featuring rare and familiar images by Victorian Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne and little-known Weimar Berliner Marta Astfalck-Vietz, as well as French Surrealist Claude Cahun and American prodigy Francesca Woodman.

Victorian Irvine   Pygmalion and the Image: Sex, Photography and Victorian Models
Katherine Tubb 
  Marta Astfalck-Vietz: Suicide in Spirits
Rachael Grew   "Under this mask another mask": Women, Photography and Surrealism
Catriona McAra   Francesca Woodman: The Femme-enfant Tears Through the Text

Image: Marta Astfalck-Vietz Selbstmord in Spiritus (1927)