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When Women Photographers Went to War
It may seem surprising in 2019 that there is still a need for a gendered exhibition to acknowledge the work of women in the field of war photography.
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But as the director general of Düsseldorf’s Kunstpalast, Felix Krämer, writes in the forward to this book: “Even though female photographers have been present at the front lines since the First World War [. . .] our understanding of war still has a masculine connotation.”
Women War Photographers: From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus (Kunstpalast and Prestel, 2019) is the companion photobook to the exhibition of the same name that opened at Kunstpalast in March 2019 and will travel to Switzerland’s Fotomuseum Winterthur in February 2020.
Showcasing the work of eight photographers, the exhibition was inspired by the museum’s acquisition of seventy-four photographs by the Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer Anja Niedringhaus, killed on assignment in Afghanistan in 2014.
The curators,