Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography From the 1850s to the Present

This is the first anthology of writings to explore the legacy of women in photography. Heron and Williams have assembled a fascinating collection of writings by some of photography's most brilliant--not to mention women--writers, including Susan Sontag, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Illuminations convincingly shows the involvement of women in photography from its inception and the influence they have had on all of its important historical debates.