Artists: Women and the Media
Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Women and the Media
Visual images have always been an important means for representing, creating and disseminating official versions of 'reality.' Over the course of the past 100 years the camera has been a powerful tool in this enterprise; the viewer seldom challenges its apparent objectivity. Given the ways in which women have, since the camera's invention, been a popular object of its gaze, it is heartening to see increasingly women on the other side of the lens--creating their own vision. In this way the work of women photographers and film makers tends to be subversive as they transgress both the boundaries of masculine technology and the right of hegemony to present its exclusive version of reality.
It is important for women to look at other women, because the kind of image many male photographers have of women is certainly very different from how we see ourselves.
(Erica Lennard)
