In this video, Alise Tifentale reviews the book and exhibition catalogue Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography (Tartu: Tartu Art Museum and Blind Carbon Copy, 2020) in conversation with the editors of the book, Šelda Puķīte and Indrek Grigor. The conversation took place via Zoom in January 2021 and the video first aired on March 24, 2021.
The book Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography was born out of an exhibition of the same name at the Tartu Art Museum (June 12 — September 27, 2020) and it introduces ten early women photographers who worked in Estonia and Latvia in the early 20th century.
View my review and conversation with the editors on the Tartu Art Museum YouTube channel:
These are some of the topics we touched upon during the conversation:
06:18 History of photography itself is a forgotten field
07:25 History has been constantly rewritten
11:06 History of photography as we know it is a very narrow discourse
13:02 The MoMA approach
14:15 Local histories should not be compared to the mainstream modernist story
23:18 On benefits of making exhibitions in Tartu
28:45 What's next?
Learn more about the book (and the eponymous exhibition and related symposium) on its dedicated website: http://silvergirls.eu/en
Find this and many other images from the book here: http://silvergirls.eu/book
Find this and many other images from the book here: http://silvergirls.eu/book
Find this and many other images from the book here: http://silvergirls.eu/book
Find this and many other images from the book here: http://silvergirls.eu/book
Find this and many other images from the book here: http://silvergirls.eu/book