Photography and Women's History
Thurs., March 24 * 10 PM ET / 7 PM PT on Clubhouse
This upcoming week in History Club, we’ll continue our collaboration with Flipboard with a Clubhouse event about photography and women’s history, in recognition of Women’s History Month.
Women's history is intimately linked with the history of photography. Women photographers have documented and interpreted events from behind camera since the late 19th century--as well as used the "subversive medium" of photography to share their stories with the broader world.
Our guest will be Mary Panzer, a writer, photography curator and historian of photography.
Join us on Clubhouse Thursday night, Mar. 24 at 10pm ET. We’ll do a 1-on-1 conversation, followed by audience Q&A. (Add to calendar.)
Special thanks to Flipboard for sponsoring this conversation. History Club and Flipboard have teamed up to create a series of events and online storyboards.
Below: A portrait of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston and her mother. Born in 1864, Johnston was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained in Paris, she owned and operated a photography and portrait studio in Washington, D.C. As a photojournalist she provided images to the Bain News Service; documented the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania; and, later in life, created the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, a photographic record of approximately 1,700 buildings and gardens funded by the Carnegie Corporation and preserved in the Library of Congress.
See you on Clubhouse, Thursday, March 24 at 10 PM ET.
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