Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

Something’s in the air, major new photography exhibitions are opening everywhere. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is opening Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography on 7 May.

For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photographypresents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms,a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.

Ilse Bing. Self-Portrait in Mirrors. 1931.