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Living women photographers who inspire me. Also, adding or updating wikipedia pages for those who meet wiki's requirements.

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The Larchmont Buzz did a little story on my Larchmont project! http://www.larchmontbuzz.com/larchmont-village-life/daily-images-larchmont-boulevard/

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An-My Lê anmyle.com

Born 1960 in Saigon, Vietnam. Lives and works in New York, NY. Has a wikipedia page. I added some, going to add more soon.

From her Art 21 interview: I think there’s always an element of something not quite understood in the sublime, something otherworldly, conflicting—something beautiful that’s not always beautiful, and something that’s not quite controllable and not within our reach. I don’t think that photography is made to capture and describe magic, but there are great magical moments in still photographs.

From her Wired interview: I guess you could call me fatalistic because I believe it was my destiny to be born in a country of war. I always try to look at the positive effects [of war] as well.

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I was finally able to get Barbara Kasten added! Gives me energy to keep re-submitting on the other ones. If there are any women photographers who are notable by wikipedia standards (other people have written critically about them, they have won major awards, represented in collections, etc) that you think should be added, please let me know and I'll add them to my list. 

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@ Rebecca Drolen

I make the most plans on a Monday, so here is another awesome submission to The Blue Library! 

Here is the info on how to format and submit. Please note, we consider work even if you aren’t able to get it in the template. I’ll help you get it ready if it is chosen. http://thebluelibrary.com/submit-2/

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Deadline October 31, 2014. Books will be shown in New Orleans during PhotoNOLA and Prospect3.

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Deborah Willis DebWillisPhoto.com Has a great wikipedia page! Born Philadelphia, PA 1948. Currently lives in NYC. I saw Hank Willis Thomas speak in Nashville last year. Besides speaking eloquently about his own work, he spoke a great deal about his mother, Deborah Willis. She was frustrated with photo history and the representation of black photographers and literally had to write the book on it- Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present. I am excited to see the documentary out this year. From her Art Voices article: Through the themes of community, women, and beauty, African American photographers will continue to explore the complexity of our lives through digital photography. More and more photograph collectives are meeting on Facebook and sharing their works as well as ideas about the images. Thus an expanded conversation about photography is encouraged through these groups. It is wonderful to watch online.  From her Huffington Post interview: So, I wanted to create a discussion about beauty. Since that time, I've seen a number of new books about beauty, and none really looked at black beauty. I also had cancer during this time, writing the book, and discovered that a lot of people had difficulty looking at me with a bald head. I realized that, even in illness, beauty is important.

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Ruth Thorne-Thomsen Born 1943 NYC.  Currently lives in Philadelphia and Moab, Utah. From her Chicago Tribune feature: That was like acting out a fantasy-being in the wilderness, witnessing, photographing, connecting with the exploratory photographers. I would have loved to have been a 19th Century photographer feeling the thrill of discovery. Then I found that thrill on the beach.

For that journey, Thorne-Thomsen packed stories of her grandmother's travels, a taste for the 19th Century expeditionary photographs, a love of sand castles, an attraction to the pinhole camera and a childhood knack for dreaming up parallel universes. Ruth was, as far I know, still married to Ray Metzker who passed away earlier this week. www.laurencemillergallery.com/two_of_a_mind.html  My sympathy goes out to Ruth whose photographs were very influential to me early on.

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Girl Crush Issue #3

Profiling the accomplishments of women in hopes to inspire others to do the same.

2009, we started the Got a Girl Crush blog from opposite sides of the country (Meg in Brooklyn and Andrea in San Francisco). In 2011, we brought this project to its physical form and started Got a Girl Crush Magazine. Partly because it was the perfect excuse to meet our girl crushes in real-life, and mainly to celebrate the inspiring ladies out there today who are doing cool ass shit. Since then, we’ve launched two issues and, with your help, have now are so pleased to announce the arrival of Issue #3!

Featuring: Annie Larson (ALL Knitwear) • Cait Oppermann & Yael Malka (photographers) • Cristen Conger & Caroline Ervin (Stuff Mom Never Told You podcast) • Danielle Flowers (Gotham Girls Roller Derby) • Ellen Van Dusen (Dusen Dusen) • Jenny Thai (writer) • Helen Shirley (cycling advocate) • Mary Roach (author) • Paula Z. Segal (596 Acres) • Rena Tom (Makeshift Society) • Sandi Falconer & Danielle Wright (Falconwright) • Sonali Fernando (New Orleans renaissance woman) // Cover Illustration by Tuesday Bassen // Designed​ by Celeste Prevost // Edited by Meg Wachter & Andrea Cheng 

Order your copy today at shop.gotagirlcrush.com!

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Lisa Kereszi Lisa Kereszi.com Born 1973 Pennsylvania. Currently lives in New Haven, CT. From her theArtBlog.org interview: My grandmother’s mother was an artist, as well as a nurse, an RN. They were Sunday painters, oil, watercolor, arts and crafts. My grandmother’s porcelain dolls were pretty exquisite reproductions. The kiln is still in the basement, so are the molds. Back in the 1980s, her dolls sold for maybe $400, which seems like a lot back then. I was so proud she had a show at the local public library, dolls in glass cases, and that the baby dolls my sister and I “painted” were included.

From her Urbanautica interview: I forced myself yesterday to make three appointments to shoot things I had been thinking about for months. If I am going to call myself a photographer, I ought to go take some pictures!

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Tara Wray TaraWray.net TaraWray.tumblr.com Born Manhattan, Kansas. Currently lives in Barnard, VT. From her Mull It Over Interview: The new book documents my return to Kansas after a long absence to visit my 86-year-old grandmother, who had been a key character in my film. The book explores themes of attachment and avoidance, as my grandmother, in the declining years of her life, and me, a new parent, confront the shared grief over our broken relationships with my mother, from whom we are both once again estranged. It reflects my ambivalence about the meaning of family, mothers and daughters, and autobiographical art. 

From her Darwin Magazine interview: I went to a Lynda Barry workshop once. She said there’s not much money in art, which I believe is true for the most part. I remember her saying – not in a discouraging way but in a realistic way – that an individual shouldn’t go into the arts unless you can’t not do your art. I like that.

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LaToya Ruby Frazier latoyarubyfrazier.com Born in Pittsburg, PA in 1982. Splits her time between Braddock, New York City, and New Jersey.  Working on her wikipedia. From her Huffington Post interview: I think that I've answered people with P.S.1. There will be more things to come that people won't expect. I'm not worried about boxes. There are so many different ways to talk about Braddock. If I'm talking about Braddock, I'm talking about American history, and if I'm doing that, I have global connections.

From her Art In America interview: There are four contemporary artists whose works speak to me and inspire my practice: Abigail DeVille, Coco Fusco, Alfredo Jaar and Walid Raad. All four of these artists poignantly confront blind spots in collective memory, they interrogate historical amnesia, they make visual and social representations of invisible realities and their work is heavily research-based.

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Leon #6, 2004 from The Panhandler Project Barbara DeGenevieve Rest in Power, Barbara DeGenevieve. She will be missed.

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Elaine Stocki Born 1979 Currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

From her interview on Exposure Project: I think that I’m interested in ideas that I have questions about. And the ideas that I had questions about in this body of work were ideas of how to look at race, class and gender in a way that was different from the heaviness of what I had seen before. There is an honesty in wondering about how the world, real and contrived, looks when it is photographed, and I think that that spirit of curiosity comes through in the photographs, so that the work is free of documentation with an answer already in mind. Given that I am a young white woman, and given the history of both performance and the history of the portrayal (photographic and otherwise) of African-Americans in the United States, the fact that I photograph African-American men could be viewed as problematic from the get-go. Good work that deals with class, gender and race is rife with wit and wickedness. I aspire to that. I have no interest in weighty morality or somberness. New images of social culture are not made with that burden on your shoulders. From her Uncompromising Tang interview: New Haven and Winnipeg have been good to me in terms of idea making, and the ability to cook up and idea, try it out, disregard it, and then move to the next thing. It seemed like all my ideas in New York were half-baked. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s more exciting to me to be operating a bit out of the centre of things.

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Terry Evans Born 1944 Kansas City. Currently lives in Chicago, IL.

TerryEvansPhotography.com

Wikipedia- working on it! From her project statements: Years ago, when my children were little, I began picking up dead birds and an occasional mouse I'd see when I was out for a walk. I'd zip these creatures into plastic bags and put them in the freezer in order to take them out later to photograph them. My daughter would be aghast when, after school, she would bring a friend home, open up the freezer for a Popsicle, and find it populated with dead birds. So, when I started working in the birds collection at The Field and discovered that they have a freezer, I felt I'd come home.

From her Spencer Museum of Art interview: I imagined that my work would be about describing the Jakobshavn Glacier for an audience back home, much like photographer William Henry Jackson did in 1871, when he accompanied Dr. Ferdinand Hayden, geologist to Yellowstone, bringing back gorgeous photographs of that uncharted territory. My reality was different. I did aerially photograph, from a helicopter, the ice fjord leading to the calving front of the Jakobshavn Glacier and I did photograph the glacier front and its surface, but what I saw was confusing and frustrating. I could not understand what I was seeing because there were no human markers below me on the ice. I had no sense of scale. Was that chunk of ice twenty stories high or knee high?

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Hobbes Ginsberg HobbesGinsberg.com hhobbess.tumblr.com

Born ~1994 Lives in Los Angeles, CA. From her Alphabang interview: I think the photos kind of inform my identity as much as my identity informs the photos in the sense that I’m a very aesthetic-based person and so I’ll often try out something for myself in a picture before I wear it in everyday life. In the photos I try to go for something that’s very much kind of ridiculous and very bright and very much ‘there’ and using photography is the way I feel most comfortable confronting those identities- especially when there’s conflicting identities. From her txt blog: i think my photos feel more like paintings to me

i am scared that nothing i create is original / worthwhile

i am scared because when i consume media i think / talk in its voice for hours afterwards 

i was scared that reading tao lin would make me feel crazy like the time i read catcher in the rye in high school and i was positive i was going to end up in a mental hospital like holden but mostly i miss matthew donahoo

And buy one of Hobbess' zines- http://hhobbess.tumblr.com/post/91203079393/monthly-zine-issue-1-june-2014-24-pg-on !!! It is great.

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Lauren Greenfield LaurenGreenfield.com

Born in Boston, MA, in 1966. Currently resides in Venice, CA. Adding citations to her wikipedia page. From her Rookie interview: I’m engaged in this question about what has currency, what has status, and what has value. I think girls learn at an early age that their power as a woman comes from their body, and that it has value and currency. In Jackie’s story, for example, the fact that she’s an engineer that decided she could—and did—get further in life by becoming a beauty queen and a model is a really interesting and important reflection of the culture. From her PBS Artbeat interview: I was very lucky in their willingness to share their life with me, even after things started to change. I think that was due to our relationship and to the fact that we had been filming for awhile when that happened. But ultimately I think it makes them much more empathetic figures. Their relationship with the audience also changes. I think in the beginning you think you could never identify with these people who are living these outsized lives, and by the end you can empathize with them.

I highly, highly recommend Queen of Versailles!

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Courtney Asztalos CourtneyAsztalos.com CourtneyAsztalos.tumblr.com Currently lives in New Orleans, LA. Soon to be Syracuse, NY. From her Southern Glossary interview: Even though she photographs people from all backgrounds, Asztalos seems to gravitate toward presenting and talking about women. While sexuality is overtly advertised on the walls outside of clubs and uninhibited flirting between strangers is commonplace, she contrasts the posturing of strippers in doorways with the vulnerability of a young woman lying about her age to some boys trailing her or with the daily routine of female residents including the street on their jogging route.

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Yael and I have a show coming up.

New work from both of us!