Spooner & Wells, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan and New York, New York). [Suffrage hike from New York City to Washington, D.C.], 1913. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, gift of George Lazarnick.
Larry Fink (American, b. 1941). Women's March Washington, D.C., January 2017. From the series Politics. Inkjet print. George Eastman Museum, gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz. © Larry Fink
Federal Bureau of Investigation. [Wanted poster (Angela Davis)], 1970. Offset lithograph. George Eastman Museum, gift of Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment’s ratification, which granted American women the right to vote, this presentation examines how photography has portrayed, and fundamentally shaped, perceptions of women and feminist movements since the mid-1800s. Curator Lisa Hostetler will expand on the current selection of photographs in the History of Photography Gallery, which she and Associate Curator Jamie M. Allen co-curated with master’s students in the Photographic Preservation and Collections Management program Rebecca Gourevitch, Forrest Soper, Maya Swann Vitale, and Xiaochun Wang.
Free to all.
This talk has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this talk, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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