SPC Welcomes Prof. Gillian Hannum to Present “Women in Photography 1840-1940” Wednesday, April 18
Our 3rd Wednesday events are geared towards non-competition programs. This may include guest speakers, educational workshops and presentations, or social events. SPC is pleased to bring you for our 3rd Wednesday’s educational event for the month of April:
SPC welcomes Professor Gillian Hannum who will give her presentation to the Club: Women in Photography 1840-1940 on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm at the Stamford Senior Center.
This presentation will look at the first century of photographic activity through the lenses of women. We will begin with early pioneers like Anna Atkins, look at the remarkable portraits and subject images of Julia Margaret Cameron and the less well-known work of her contemporary, Lady Clementina Hawarden, then trace the rapid growth of women in the field during the Pictorialist movement of the late 19th/early 20th century and also resulting from the invention of the Kodak. We will finish up by looking at a few of leading women photographers of the 1920s and 1930s, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange and Bernice Abbott.
About Gillian Hannum
Gillian Greenhill Hannum, professor of art history, has been a member of Manhattanville’s faculty since 1987. A photohistorian with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University, she is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and has published on photographic topics in publications such as the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society, History of Photography and Nineteenth Century.
We hope you can join us for this great presentation. And bring a friend!
