The New Woman: Representations in Photography and Film

During the later part of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, a range of iconic female forms emerged to dominate the global pictorial landscape. Chorine stars, female athletes and adventurers, flappers, garçonnes, �SModern Girls,⬝ neue Frauen, suffragettes, and trampky were all facets of the dazzling and urbane �SNew Woman⬝ who came to epitomize modern femininity in photographs and on film. This construct existed as both a set of abstract ideas and ideals and varied as it was translated across national contexts and through a range of key historical moments, including first-wave feminism, colonialism, the First and Second World Wars, political revolutions, and the rise of modernism. This panel will examine the nuances of visual representations of this transgressive and border-crossing figure from her inception in the late-nineteenth century to her full development in the interwar period and beyond.Elizabeth Otto, assistant professor in the department of visual studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo,is an art historian who focuses on issues of gender, visuality, and media culture in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in Germany and France.Vanessa Rocco, adjunct assistant professor in the history of art and design at Pratt Institute, has a PhD in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she specialized in Weimar-era photography, film, and exhibition culture.Sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women
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