International Women Photographers Series—I’m So Happy You Are Here

A trailblazing book chronicling the fundamental and consequential contributions of Japanese women photographers.Mariko Takeuchi and Pauline Vermare discuss their collaborative project creating a restorative history of Japanese photography. Offering a critical and celebratory counterpoint to the invisibility of Japanese women photographers this expansive and rigorously researched book features 25 portfolios, multiple essays and an illustrated bibliography of photobooks by Japanese women photographers. This bold book embraces emotion, experimentation and provocation in myriad forms of beauty, humor, and deeply spirited connections. In this conversation, Mariko and Pauline discuss, among other things:Pulling back layers of cultural understanding of being a womenExpanding vocabulary and objects of studyWomanhood, daughterhood and caregiving Physical involvement with the mediumUtilizing self-portraiture to reclaim agency over one's bodyMaking tangible that which is invisibleAn outward expression of internal experienceIncluding the voices of photographers in the essays and textMaking and remaking meaningReferenced in the episode:ApertureRencontres d’Arles Exhibition I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese women Photographers From the 1950’s to NowA World History of Women Photographers by Luce Lebart and Marie RobertThe Third Gallery AyaPGI GalleryBehind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography / Created by Dr. Kelly McCormick and Carrie CushmanWhat They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999 by Russet Lederman and Olga YatskevichWomen Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics by Marsha MeskimmonLiving a Feminist Life by Sara AhmedWorld Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report 2023Self-Portraits by Yurie NagashimaUme-me - Todays Happening by Ume KayoThe Memories of Others - Akihiko Okamura / Photo Museum Ireland

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