Exhibition archive - Insight: Women's Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection - Norton Museum of Art

Insight: Women's Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection
6/7/1997 - 7/20/1997

In conjunction with the 75th anniversary of women's suffrage, George Eastman House celebrates the achievements of women photographers with the exhibition - "Insight: Women's Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection", May 24 through July 20, 1997. Drawn from the permanent collection of the George Eastman House, Insight features the work of more than 50 women, who document their worlds with acuity and compassion.

Both diversity of subject and technique are embraced by these women with equal intensity. From the industrial landscapes of Margaret Bourke-White to the ethnographic and cultural musings of Carrie Mae Weems, the approaches to photography are as limitless as the imaginations of the women who produced them.

Photographer Eva Watson-Schutze observed in 1905 that her picture-making was "the symbolic use of objects, form and color to express ideas." Recently, women's issues in the medium have focused on the self, to bring up issues of aging, sexuality and self-definition, offering women a sense of power and legitimacy. Photographer Joan Myers expresses a generation's changing sense of self."As a woman approaching fifty, I find myself less and less comfortable with the way American culture defines and portrays older women. . . I use my camera to explore possibilities, the messages and histories expressed in other women's bodies. I wish less to define than to reveal."

In all the images presented in the exhibition, women illuminate their own experiences, confronting society's canons and expectations of womanhood with an unflinching personal vision. This wide range of approaches to the medium also reflects the diversity of the Museum's photographic collection, which spans nearly 150 years of women's contributions.

Insight: Women's Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection was organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and made possible by support from Nancy Woodhull, the Freedom Forum, and the Susan B. Anthony University Center.

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