The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington have organized a groundbreaking, new photography exhibition, The New Woman Behind the Camera. Known by different names, from nouvelle femme and neue Frau to modan gāru and xin nüxing, the New Woman of the 1920’s was easy to recognize but hard to define. Her image—a woman with bobbed hair, stylish dress, and a confident stride—was everywhere, splashed across the pages of magazines and projected on the silver screen. For many of these daring women, the camera was a means to assert their self-determination and artistic expression. Though the New Woman is often regarded as a Western phenomenon, this exhibition proves otherwise by bringing together rarely seen photographs from around the world and presenting a nuanced, global history of photography.

Source: Forbes July 31, 2021 21:22 UTC