For this essay, I revisit the collaboration between the artist Sophie Thun and the archive of my mother, the artist and photographer Zenta Dzividzinska. The collaboration, initiated by the curator Zane Onckule, began in 2021 and later continues in Sophie’s other projects.
Read moreSuccessful conference day! Our panel at the ASEEES 2021 Annual Convention
I had the pleasure and excitement to serve as a discussant at the ASEEES 2021 Annual Convention virtual session Fake Equality: The Activity, Impact, and Representation of Women in Photo Clubs and Organizations in the Late Soviet Period. The panel session went live Thursday, December 2, 2021 8am CST (4pm EET).
Read moreNew article: "Entering the Elusive Estate of Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska"
Sizzling hot off the metaphorical press! New article in Museum of Modern Art’s online research publication Post. Notes on Art in Global Context, listed in sections Central & Eastern Europe and Art and Gender.
Read moreVideo review of "Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography"
Alise Tifentale reviews the book Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography in conversation with the editors of the book, Šelda Puķīte and Indrek Grigor. The video first aired on March 24, 2021.
Read moreGisèle Freund about women photographers
Gisèle Freund in 1954 wrote that "Women are interested in things more than in their relations to each other. They are not easily attracted by political or current events, but they distinguish themselves in portraits, children’s photographs, and they know how to capture with subtlety every expression of everyday life." From today’s perspective, it may sound outrageously “anti-feminist” and patronizing. But what if she was right?
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