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Title:

Ambassadors of progress : American women photographers in Paris, 1900-1901 / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ; essays by Verna Posever Curtis ... [et al.] ; biographies by Laura Ilise Meister.

Publisher:

Distributed by University Press of New England,
Distributed by University Press of New England,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

199 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Subject:

Johnston, Frances Benjamin,--1864-1952--Photograph collections--Exhibitions.
Women photographers--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
Women photographers--Paris--Paris--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Griffith, Bronwyn.
Curtis, Verna Posever.
Meister, Laura Ilise.
Musée américain Giverny.
Terra Museum of American Art.
Hood Museum of Art.

Notes:

"Exhibition venues: Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, France, September 13-November 30, 2001; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, January 26-April 14, 2002; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 11-March 9, 2003"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-199) and index.

Contents:

"Dainty and artistic or strong and forceful--just as you wish" : American women photographers at the Universal Exposition of 1900 / Bronwyn A.E. Griffith -- Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1900 : stalking the sisterhood's claim in American photography / Verna Posever Curtis -- A taste of the avant-garde : the reception of American women photographers in Paris (1900-1901) / Michel Poivert -- What women have done : pictorial photographs from the Frances Benjamin Johnston collection : a conservator's view / Andrew Robb -- Women photographers in the Frances Benjamin Johnston collection : biographies / by Laura Ilise Meister.

ISBN:

9780932171221
0932171222

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47658839
(OCoLC)50665635

LCCN:

2001038514

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)