International Women Photographers Series—Collaboration
Ariella Aisha Azoulay * Wendy Ewald * Susan Mieselas * Leigh Raiford * Laura Wexler
Episode #82
Summary
This seminal book, a compendium of image-based projects, illuminates the subtle evolution of ideas of photographic practice over time.
Episode Notes:
This book offers a non-authoritarian systematic deconstruction of photo history to expand ways of making, seeing, and thinking about the multi-layers of relationships within photography. Five revered photographers, teachers and scholars innovated ways to visualize process and reinvestigate archives. Their collaborative project results in a prismatic view, new vocabulary and an essential teaching tool.
In this conversation, Susan Mieselas, Wendy Ewald and Laura Wexler discuss, among other things:
Opening new relationships within the event of photography
Limits of visual vocabulary
Methodologies that favor listening, learning and unlearning
The malleability of ideas and associations
Seeing across time
Photo with the blinders off
Creating vocabulary
Seeing threads and weaving them
Discovering what is missing
Building understanding
Dynamics of visual culture
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