PlanetHeroines, Author at Hundred Heroines

Lisl Ponger : Don Durito and the Master Narrative

‘The calendar is made up of the past, for those at the top. So that it will stay that way, the powerful fill it up with statues, holidays, museums, homages, parades. That all serves the purpose of keeping the past in place; where things have already happened and not where they will…

PlanetHeroines30th July 2022

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Jessie Tarbox Beals

Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 –1942), Canadian-born American photographer and photojournalist, was the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She documented Greenwich Village and the major figures and events of New York from the Victorian era up to the Depression.

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

A group of brown bottles stands on a table, beside a cactus, a lemon, and a small sculpture of a cherub.

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Jan Groover

American photographer Jan Groover experimented with space, light, colour, and form in painterly, large-format still lives.

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

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Belonging : Haley Drolet

To coincide with Gloucester Cathedrals 'Belonging' exhibition currently being on display in the Cathedral, they've been catching up with members of the Gloucester community to find out what Belonging means to them.

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

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Hazel (Frieda) Larsen Archer

Hazel Larsen Archer 's photos provide an invaluable record of their era, and of a group of avant-garde artists that changed American art.

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

Birgit Jürgenssen. Untitled (Self with Fur)

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A Feminist Avant-Garde

Featuring, among others, Contemporary Heroines Renate Bertlmann, VALIE EXPORT, ORLAN, Cindy Sherman, Annegret Soltau, Nil Yalter, and Marianne Wex; and Historical Heroines Ana Mendieta, Martha Rosler, and Francesca Woodman.

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

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Noémie Goudal: Phoenix

In Phoenix, Noémie Goudal exemplifies her approach to photography as – rather than the ‘decisive moment’ described by Henri Carter-Bresson – “a place that you can visit and revisit a place you can live in.”

PlanetHeroines25th July 2022

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Babette Mangolte – Women in Motion 2022

Hundred Heroines would like to congratulate Babette Mangolte, who has been awarded the winner of the Women in Motion 2022 Award.

PlanetHeroines6th July 2022

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Donna Ferrato – Holy

In 2020, legendary photographer Donna Ferrato published Holy – a 50-year journey across the United States in pursuit of women’s political, emotional, and sexual liberation.

PlanetHeroines23rd June 2022

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Portrait(s) 2022

Celebrating a decade of bringing some of the world’s leading artists to France, Portrait(s) festival returns to the spa city of Vichy again this year, from 24th June.

PlanetHeroines23rd June 2022