MPS 301 Lecture Notes - Hannah Höch, Marlene Dietrich, Cyanotype
Document Summary
Politicizing the link between public and private. Exloring the terms in whin men and women are depicted in art. Exploring gender, class and differences in people. Women have been involved in photography from the beginning. More of a socialist take on feminism. Went to art school and committed suicide a year after graduating. Mid 1850"s to her death from influenza. Created self portraits that corresponded with critical feminist ideas of gender. Many types of photographer that of under the radar. Family album from the 1950s, women generally in charge of the family album and this is possibly why they were over looked. Most of the tradition depiction of women is not how they would illustrate and create themselves. Makes association with women and sources of life. The adaptation of the feminist movement of the gaze". She liked the left image of her entire body bent over, disliked photo of her back on bed.
