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The Long Shadow: Unwrapped - Marion Post Wolcott's Labor and Love Odette England Libraryman, £36
In 2020 Nicole Hudgins published a book called The Gender of Photography, which (among other things) considered the growing corpus of books and exhibitions dedicated to once-lost female photographers. Reflecting that these works have somehow failed to rebalance the prevailing narratives, she proposed a more radical rethink was required. Such accounts of photography's history and its many uses will be improved by correcting the historical imbalance of values, not simply by adding women's names and achievements to conventional accounts, she wrote. To paraphrase Cambridge anthropologist Henrietta Moore, the add women and stir method will not repair a deeply-rooted bias.
For Hudgins it was not enough to simply root out lost female photojournalists; that is to say, to write women into the narrative,...