One of the feminist photographers in the 1970’s is Californian born Judy Dater, who aimed at depicting women at comfort with their bodies through portraits (Marien, 2006). The feminist photographer aimed at highlighting the need for women to be comfortable with their bodies despite differences in body shapes and sizes among women. Judy Dater used sexy middle-aged subjects in the 1975 period to represent the feminist agenda. Noggle is another feminist photographer in the same period that together with Darter used self-portraits and portraits of other women in relaying the need to be comfortable with their bodies in response to the face-lifts and other women bodily changes that were happening at the time (Warren, 2005). These photographers mainly
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Liora K through her project The Feminist Photos is an example of modern feminist photographers with the aiming of advancing equality of women by photographing feminists in all fifty states. She also focuses on the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, and queer members of the society to augmenting the equality access of these groups and women in the society. Sarah Maple is another modern feminist photographer with a view of exploring the life of a young Muslim woman in the 21st century through photography in a brave, bold, and satiric manner. She has devoted her skills to promoting equality for women and especially women Muslims and decrying inequality and injustice perpetrated on women in the 21st century. Tomoko Sawada explores sexuality, individuality, stereotypes, and identity through different characters and contextualization of her images exploring the status and place of women in contemporary Japanese society. The gender inequalities and role of women in the society are some of the other issues explored b y feminist photographers in the society …show more content…
These photographers are mainly a representation of the lives of the photographers growing up and living in surroundings faced by gender and racial differences as evident by Tracey Moffatt, Mae Weems, and Clarissa Sligh. They were faced with racial and gender inequality, and they turned to photography to push the feminist gender and equality in general. Lesbianism and other minority groups in the society are other issues dealt with by modern feminist photographers with a view of accessing equality for all despite their sexual orientation and other aspects. Laura Aguilar and Catherine Opie are examples of feminist photographers who turned to photographic representation in defining identity and fighting for the rights of lesbian. They aim at calling for inclusion and equality for the lesbian communities through different depictions in photographs including Being and Having and Latina Lesbian Series. These images confront popular belief in the society and are aimed at augmenting acceptance and inclusion of these
Liora K through her project The Feminist Photos is an example of modern feminist photographers with the aiming of advancing equality of women by photographing feminists in all fifty states. She also focuses on the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, and queer members of the society to augmenting the equality access of these groups and women in the society. Sarah Maple is another modern feminist photographer with a view of exploring the life of a young Muslim woman in the 21st century through photography in a brave, bold, and satiric manner. She has devoted her skills to promoting equality for women and especially women Muslims and decrying inequality and injustice perpetrated on women in the 21st century. Tomoko Sawada explores sexuality, individuality, stereotypes, and identity through different characters and contextualization of her images exploring the status and place of women in contemporary Japanese society. The gender inequalities and role of women in the society are some of the other issues explored b y feminist photographers in the society …show more content…
These photographers are mainly a representation of the lives of the photographers growing up and living in surroundings faced by gender and racial differences as evident by Tracey Moffatt, Mae Weems, and Clarissa Sligh. They were faced with racial and gender inequality, and they turned to photography to push the feminist gender and equality in general. Lesbianism and other minority groups in the society are other issues dealt with by modern feminist photographers with a view of accessing equality for all despite their sexual orientation and other aspects. Laura Aguilar and Catherine Opie are examples of feminist photographers who turned to photographic representation in defining identity and fighting for the rights of lesbian. They aim at calling for inclusion and equality for the lesbian communities through different depictions in photographs including Being and Having and Latina Lesbian Series. These images confront popular belief in the society and are aimed at augmenting acceptance and inclusion of these