What They Saw
Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999
This pop-up reading room surveys a global history of photobooks by women photographers from the Getty Library. As part of an international series showcasing the 10×10 Photobooks' catalog What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999, it offers an inclusive revision and remapping of the photobook canon. It is complemented by notable photobooks by Southern California women artists after 2000.
Artists
- Berenice Abbott
- Lola Alvarez Bravo
- Emmy Andriesse
- Diane Arbus
- Eve Arnold
- Anna Atkins
- Tina Barney
- Martine Barrat
- Ruth Bernhard
- Eva Besnyoe
- Aenne Biermann
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Sophie Calle
- Elsa Dorfman
- Nell Dorr
- Paz Errazuriz
- Lotte Errell
- Angéle Etoundi Essamba
- Jill Freedman
- Gisele Freund
- Nan Goldin
- Henriette Grindat
- Hannah Hoech
- Abigail Heyman
- Graciela Iturbide
- Barbara Kruger
- Germaine Krull
- Erica Lennard
- Helen Levitt
- Mary Ellen Mark
- Michiko Matsumoto
- Emila Medkova
- Susan Meiselas
- Lee Miller
- Lisette Model
- Inge Morath
- Barbara Morgan
- Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
- Yurie Nagashima
- Shirin Neshat
- Tamiko Nishimura
- Ruth Orkin
- Marcia Resnick
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Lorna Simpson
- Dayanita Singh
- Jo Spence
- Monika von Boch
- Hedda Walther
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Marianne Wex
- Martha Wilson