Women Seeing Women


	Women Seeing Women

sahara

11-11-2007 10:24 AM

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women, feminism, photography

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'Women Seeing Women: A Pictorial History of Women's Photography from Julia Margaret Cameron to Annie Leibovitz' (Haus Publishing, £30), edited by Lothar Schirmer, published on 30 November, is available from Telegraph Books.

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By Kathryn Hughes</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/fashion/2007/11/11/st_womenphotographers.xml"><P class="story2"> When a female photographer takes a picture of another woman what, exactly, does she see? 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