International Women Photographers Series—Collaboration

This seminal book, a compendium of image-based projects, illuminates the subtle evolution of ideas of photographic practice over time.This book offers a non-authoritarian systematic deconstruction of photo history to expand ways of making, seeing, and thinking about the multi-layers of relationships within photography. Five revered photographers, teachers and scholars innovated ways to visualize process and reinvestigate archives. Their collaborative project results in a prismatic view, new vocabulary and an essential teaching tool. In this conversation, Susan Mieselas, Wendy Ewald and Laura Wexler discuss, among other things:Opening new relationships within the event of photographyLimits of visual vocabularyMethodologies that favor listening, learning and unlearningThe malleability of ideas and associationsSeeing across timePhoto with the blinders offCreating vocabularySeeing threads and weaving themDiscovering what is missingBuilding understandingDynamics of visual cultureReferenced in the episode:Susan MiesalasAriella Aisha AzoulayLaura WexlerWendy EwaldLeigh Raiford

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