A light for all of us: Joyce Tenneson
Joyce Tenneson, born in 1945, grew up in a Catholic monastery, studied painting, and came to photography through frustration with how male photographers saw her. This is the story of a late-blooming artist whose luminous, spiritual imagery of the feminine body became quietly essential — and somehow never made her a household name.
To the roots of female photographers of artistic nudes 2: Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976): from Pictorialist soft-focus to f/64 sharp modernism. Pioneer of artistic nude photography who photographed the human body — male and female — as form, light, and truth rather than desire. Botanical studies, industrial landscapes, street photography, and portraits spanning 70 years of American West Coast photography.