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Until 3 May

Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light

  • Art
  • Exhibition

Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

Featuring prints, postcards, photobooks and magazines, the exhibition explores the role of photographers as image-makers, and the ways in which women artists create an image of themselves, of others, of the times – from images of the women’s suffrage movement at the turn of the twentieth century, through to the women’s liberation movement and beyond.

From Melbourne to Tokyo, Paris to Buenos Aires, the exhibition showcases the works of trailblazing artists such as Berenice Abbott, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Imogen Cunningham, Mikki Ferrill, Sue Ford, Christine Godden, Ponch Hawkes, Annemarie Heinrich, Ruth Hollick, Florence Henri, Kati Horna, Germaine Krull, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Toyoko Tokiwa, Yamazawa Eiko and many more.

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Tue 3 Mar
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 4 Mar
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Thu 5 Mar
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Fri 6 Mar
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Sat 7 Mar
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Sun 8 Mar
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Wed 22 Apr
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Fri 24 Apr
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Fri 1 May
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Location

National Gallery of Victoria
180 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne 3006

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  • telephone number: 03 8620 2222
  • email address: enquiries@ngv.vic.gov.au
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