In a message dated 10/24/2006 4:58:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While it may (or may not) be that a larger percentage of (so-called) serious photographers are men, I think it's true that in it's early days, a photography (at least in its "higher levels") included a larger percentage of women than other visual arts. Think Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Tina Mondetti, Julia Cameron, Leni Reifenstal (a great photographer despite what may have been her politics).
I've always thought that was because photography was, at the time, a relatively new medium, and was struggling to be accepted as a true "art". There was less resistance to women participating as there wasn't so much of an establishment as there was in other artforms. Not only that, but as a newer artform, it may have naturally attracted women who had an artistic bent, but were effectively shut out from more established visual arts. cheers, frank ========= Good point. There may be something to that, frank. New fields/mediums sometimes arrive with no gender attached. I.E. people haven't assigned a gender to them yet in their heads. Marnie aka Doe :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
