This reading list is designed to provide an exploration of the themes and topics that animate FOTOGRAFISTE connecting the history of photography to feminist studies, through multiple perspectives.
The texts listed below are some of the foundational references of the project in terms of theoretical groundings, empirical case studies, and methodological approaches.
If interested in contributing to the list, please send your suggestions to fotografiste.prin22pnrr@gmail.com
Federica Muzzarelli and Stefano Marino (eds)
Italian Feminist Photography
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024
Charlotte Le Chapelain (ed.)
Nineteenth Century Businesswomen: a Retrospective Glance at Women Entrepreneurship
Springer, 2024
Nicoletta Leonardi, Monica Maffioli (eds)
Le raccolte fotografiche storiche nelle Accademie di Belle Arti e nelle Scuole di Arti Applicate
Forum, 2024
Luce Lebart, Marie Robert (eds)
A World History of Women Photographers
Thames & Hudson, 2022
Russet Lederman, Olga Yatskevich (eds)
What They Saw: Historical Photobook by Women, 1843-1999
10x10 Photobooks, 2021
Linda Nochlin
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?: 50th anniversary edition
Thames & Hudson, 2021
Emma Lewis
Photography
A Feminist History: How Women Shaped the Art
Ilex Press-Hachette, 2021
Cecilia Canziani, Lara Conte, Paola Ugolini (a cura di)
Io dico Io - I Say I
Artiste e autorappresentazione
Silvana Editoriale, 2021
Cristina Casero (a cura di)
Fotografia e femminismo nell'Italia degli anni Settanta: rispecchiamento, indagine critica e testimonianza
Postmedia books, 2021
Darren Newbury et al. (eds)
Women and Photography in Africa
Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges
Routledge, 2021
Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock
Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Nicole Hidgins
The Gender of Photography
How Masculine and Feminine Values Shaped the History of Nineteenth-Century Photography
Routledge, 2020
Luce Lebart, Marie Robert
Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes
Editions Textuel, 2020
Isabelle Chabot et al. (eds)
Vingt-cinq ans après: les femmes au rendez-vous de l'histoire
Collection de l'École Française de Rome , 2019
Julia Bärnighausen, Costanza Caraffa, Stefanie Klamm,
Franka Schneider, and Petra Wodtke (eds)
Photo-Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo Archives in the Humanities and Sciences
Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge (Open Access edition), 2019
Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, Manuela Martini (eds)
What is Work? Gende at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
Berghahn Books, 2018
Nicoletta Leonardi, Simone Natale (eds)
Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century
Penn State University press, 2018
Marika Cifor, Stacy Wood
Critical Feminism in the Archives
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 2017
Michelle Caswell, Marika Cifor
From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives
Archivaria No. 81, 2016, pp. 23-43
Guy Cogeval, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Thomas Galifot et al.
Qui a peur des femmes photographes? 1839-1945
Hazan, 2015
Hadjiafxendi, K. and Zakreski, P. (eds.)
Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century Artistry and Industry in Britain
Ashgate Publishing, 2013
Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry (eds)
Contesting Archives
Finding Women in the Sources
Univesrity of Illinois Press, 2010
Patrizia Di Bello
Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England
Ladies, Mothers and Flirts
Routledge, 2007
Federica Muzzarelli
Il corpo e l'azione Donne e fotografia tra Otto e Novecento
Atlante, 2007
Johannesson, Lena, and Knape, Gunilla (eds)
Women Photographers: European Experience
Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2004
Christopher Pinney, Nicolas Petterson (eds)
Photographi's Other Histories
Duke University Press, 2003
Nicoletta Leonardi
L'altra metà dello sguardo. Il contributo delle donne alla storia della fotografia
Agorà, 2001
Karolyn Steedman
A History of European Women's Work: from 1700 to the Present
Routledge, 1998
