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  Eight Girls Taking Pictures: A Novel

  by Whitney Otto

  From the bestselling author of How to Make an American Quilt comes a powerful and sweeping novel inspired by the lives of famous female photographers. A deeply affecting meditation on the lives of women artists, Whitney Otto's vivid novel explores the ambitions, passions, conflicts and desires of eight female photographers throughout the twentieth century. This spectacular cast of spirited, larger-than-life... (more)
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  Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography

  by Martin W. Sandler

  The history of photography, and women's role within that history, remains incomplete-despite the fact that the medium was invented more than 150 years ago. Pulitzer Prize nominee Martin Sandler's Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography, with its carefully balanced commentary on women who have been lost to the historical record as well as those who have received their due, makes a... (more)
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  Looking For The Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott

  by Paul Hendrickson

  A celebration of the life and work of the twentieth-century photographer discusses her studies in Europe, her free-lance career in the United States, her depiction of a Depression-ravaged America, and her decision to abandon her career to raise a family.
• Rural Japan: Radiance of the OrdinaryLinda Butler

  

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  Rural Japan: Radiance of the Ordinary

  by Linda Butler

  Taken on the islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu between 1986-1989, these exceptionally beautiful photographs capture the "astonishing resilience" of ancient rural customs amid the ever-increasing modernization of Japanese society. In 15 short episodes, Butler ( Inner Light: The Shaker Legacy ) tells of her experience traveling the coasts and countryside, detailing her encounters with farmers, fishermen, village... (more)
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  Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann (Jargon, 50)

  by John Jacob Niles

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  Evelyn Cameron : Montana's frontier photographer

  by Kristi Hager

  Born in 1868 to a wealthy British family, Evelyn Cameron traded privilege for adventure, the lush English countryside for the austere eastern Montana badlands, a lavish estate for a tiny homestead shack. In 1894, at the age of 26, Evelyn turned to the burgeoning art of glass-plate photography as a way to support the Camerons struggling horse ranch, producing some of the most remarkable images of pioneer life ever... (more)
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  Dorothea Lange

  A Life Beyond Limits

  by Linda Gordon

  Dorothea Lange’s photographs define how we remember the Depression generation; now an evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy. We all know Dorothea Lange’s iconic photos—the “Migrant Mother” holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines—but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Lange’s journey... (more)