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THE GREAT WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC |
The Great Women Photographers at National Geographic
22 March until 16 June 2002
From 22 March
until 16 June 2002 National Geographic Germany presents "The Great
Women Photographers at National Geographic" at the Art and Exhibition
Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany - an exhibition on worlds,
people, moments.
The National Geographic photographs are considered to be the bench-mark
for exceptional quality, its authors' reports change our ideas of
the earth, its expeditions are legendary. Besides its reports on
spectacular travels of discovery to unusual spots in the world,
its photographs have particularly made National Geographic into
a legend. The exhibition "Great Women Photographers" endeavours
to do homage to this legend.
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Mali 1998
Joanna Pinneo |
Hawaii 1998
Jodi Cobb |
The exhibition presents 80 photographs taken by thirty, predominantly
American, women photographers who worked for the National Geographic
Society magazine since 1935. What has emerged is a kaleidoscope world
of National Geographic images dating from the historical origins of
photographic journalism up to the fascinating reports and background
analyses of the present. It also shows that the women who caught these
images were just as much explorers as they were photographers.
As an example of the early years of photographic journalism at the
National Geographic are the hand-colored images taken by Eliza Scidmore,
who was the first woman to publish in the magazine in 1914. She achieved
renown not least for her reports on the discovery of Glacier Bay in
Alaska and for the King of Siam's annual elephant hunt. |
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In the mid-1930s
Ella Maillart from Switzerland traveled from Northern China to Kashmir.
"I wanted to see this part of the world immediately before it became
changed by Europe's growing influence", she wrote in summing up
her 5,600 kilometer-long trip.
Besides presenting photographs by Dickey Chapelle, who died tragically
on an assignment to South Vietnam, the exhibition also shows images
taken by the animal photographer Beverly Joubert,by Karen Kasmauski,
Sisse Brimbert, Jodi Cobb and many other renowned women photographers.
A few of Jodi Cobb's most impressive images are of women, which
has been given particular consideration in the exhibition. Her reports
on Saudi-Arabian women and Japanese Geishas offer a unique view
into otherwise hidden worlds. |
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