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Alex Merola shares a list of the most influential, boundary-breaking photo books created by women, spanning from 1843 to 1999

If photography is to retain the high cultural standing it won for itself in the 20th century, we probably want less of it, not more. There's no chance of that happening, of course.

Eternel Printemps, premier état, taille originale-variante type C, 1884-94. Bronze with dark brown patina. Sold for $2,770,500 on 4 May 2011 at Christie’s in New York Claudel, however, met a tragic fate. They parted ways because of Rodin’s refusal to leave his long-time partner, Rose Beuret, and Claudel descended into madness. In 1913 she was committed to an asylum, where she remained until her death in 1943.  ‘It is terrible to be so abandoned,’ she wrote in 1915. ‘I can’t help b...

  Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s official charged with managing the state’s voting system, has become the one person truly willing to burst Donald Trump’s bubble.  Not only has he proclaimed the election in his state free and fair, he has called on Trump and his enablers to stop trying to undo the election in the strongest and most direct language yet.   “This is elections.  This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.  It’s ...

  Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s official charged with managing the state’s voting system, has become the one person truly willing to burst Donald Trump’s bubble.  Not only has he proclaimed the election in his state free and fair, he has called on Trump and his enablers to stop trying to undo the election in the strongest and most direct language yet.   “This is elections.  This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.  It’s ...

18,079 shares As part of the Paris avant-garde of the 1920s, Suzanne Malherbe, left, and Lucy Schwob created subversive, gender-bending art under the pseudonyms Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun. (Jersey Heritage Collections/ via New York Jewish Week) Jeffrey H. Jackson, author of Paper Bullets. (Algonquin/ via New York Jewish Week) Lucy and Suzanne reclining at the water near their home in Jersey. (Jersey Heritage Collections/ via New York Jewish Week) German soldiers standing in King Street...