How We See: Photobooks by Women is a hands-on touring reading room, publication and series of public events featuring a global range of one hundred 21st-century photobooks by women photographers.
How We See Reading Room Tour
- MEP: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (6-10 November 2019)
- PGH Photo, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (27-28 April 2019)
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (8-10 March 2019)
- Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (19-21 March 2019)
- FOLA: Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina (6-9 December 2018)
- The New York Public Library, New York City (25-27 October 2018)
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Associated Public Events
How We See Talk, the New York Public Library
How We See selectors Lesley Martin and Daria Tuminas in conversation with 10×10’s co-founder Olga Yatskevich
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Location: NYPL, Celeste Auditorium
476 Fifth Avenue (42nd St and Fifth Ave.)
How We See, Shakespeare & Company (Paris)
How We See Panel Discussion with 10×10 co-founder Russet Lederman, Frédérique Destribats and Iona Fergusson. Moderated by Federica Chiocchetti
Friday, 9 November 2018
Location: Shakespeare & Company
37 Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris
To See and Be Seen: The Photobook as a Site of Subjectivity
Boston Keynote Lecture by Oluremi C. Onabanjo
Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 3:30pm
Location: MassArt Tower Auditorium
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
The Past, Present and Future of Women in Photography Publishing
A Panel Discussion with Anne-Sylvie Bameule, Delphine Bedel, Elisa Medde and Florence Moll. Moderated by Anne Havinga
Saturday, 9 November 2019 at 10:15am
Location: MEP Auditorium
5/7 Rue de Fourcy, Paris
Meet the How We See Photographers and Selectors
A invitation for the public to meet the photographers and selectors behind the How We See Reading Room
Saturday, 9 November 2019 at 12pm
Location: MEP Library
5/7 Rue de Fourcy, Paris
About How We See
With historical records establishing 19th-century British photographer Anna Atkins’s Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843-1853) as the first photobook, it is not surprising that women have consistently contributed to the rich history of photobook making. 10×10 Photobooks has organized How We See—a touring reading room, “book on books” publication and series of public events—to explore the content, design and intellectual attributes in photobooks produced by women.
How We See: Photobooks by Women ‘Book on Books’ Publication
The comprehensive How We See “book-on-books” publication was published in mid-November 2018 and is now in a third printing. In addition to all one hundred books in the reading room, the publication includes one hundred historical books by women photographers, an annotated history and essays by photographer Ishiuchi Miyako; Magnum Foundation Executive Director, Kristen Lubben and Valentina Abenavoli of Akina Books.
Reading Room Tour
The How We See Reading Room launched on 25 October 2018 at the New York Public Library and will tour through 2020 to multiple venues, including MEP: Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris, November 2019), Fototeca Latinoamericana (Buenos Aires, December 2018), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, March 2019) and PGH Photo at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, April 2019), among others. Talks and presentations on photobooks by women and their history are planned for all venues. At the end of the tour the books will be donated as a complete collection to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A second collection of the How We See Reading Room books has been acquired by the New York Public Library.
How the Books are Selected
The project’s reading room selection has been formed by ten female selectors (either in teams or individually) from around the world. The project’s selectors are specialists in the photobook field, and have made selections that focus on photobooks published in the 21st-century from their respective regions.
Photographers with books in How We See include:
A-chang (now known as A-chan), Abigail Heyman, Agustina Triquell, Alessandra Spranzi, Amak Mahmoodian, Ana Paula Estrada, Anka Gujabidze, Anne Collier, Arlene Gottfried, Avani Tanya, Barbara Kasten, Batia Suter, Carmen Winant, Carrie Mae Weems, Catherine Opie, Celeste Rojas Mugica, Cemre Yeşil, Cindy Sherman, Clare Strand, Claude Cahun, Collier Schorr, Cristina de Middel, Dayanita Singh, Chin-Chin Wu, Dorottya Vékony, Dragana Jurišić, Elisabeth Tonnard, Emine Gözde Sevim, Erica Overmeer, Eriko Masaoka, Eugenia Maximova, Eva Saukane, Frédérique Bangerter, Fumiko Imano, Gauri Gill, Guadalupe Ruiz, Hannah Höch, Hitomi Watanabe, Hsia Yu, Hsin Wang, Hui Hsien Ng, Hui-Hsin Chang, Ilaria Turba, Jo Ractliffe, Joana Choumali, Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Justyna Wierzchowiecka, Katrien de Blauwer, Katya Lesiv, Ketaki Sheth, Kristina Jurotschkin, Kristina Õllek, Laia Abril, Laura El-Tantawy, Laurence Rasti, Lieko Shiga, Lisa King, Liz Johnson Artur, Lorna Simpson, Lucia Moholy, Lucia Nimcova, Maiko Haruki, María Isabel Arango, Maria Sturm, Masumi Kura, Maya Rochat, Mayumi Suzuki, Melanie Bonajo, Michiko Inoue, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Mitra Tabrizian, Olga Vorobyova, Olivia Arthur, Pixy Liao, Rena Effendi, Sara-Lena Maierhofer, Shauba Chang, Sherry Huang, Silva Bingaz, Sofía Ayarzagoitia, Sooni Taraporevala, Sophia Klaase, Sophie Calle, Susan Meiselas, Tatiana Lecomte, Ting Cheng, Tomoko Kikuchi, Uzma Mohsin, Valentina Abenavoli, Vanessa Winship, Xiaoyi Chen, Ying Ang, Ylva Sundgren, Yto Barrada, Yurie Nagashima, Zanele Muholi, and Zoë Croggon.
Selectors for the How We See Reading Room are:
- Ilgin Deniz Akseloglu (Middle East)
- Delphine Bedel & Frédérique Destribats (Western Europe)
- Federica Chiocchetti (Western Europe)
- Iona Fergusson (South Asia & Australasia)
- Amanda Ling-Ning Lo (China & Taiwan)
- Lesley A. Martin (United States)
- Oluremi C. Onabanjo (Africa)
- Mariela Sancari (Latin America)
- Miwa Susuda (Japan)
- Daria Tuminas (Eastern Europe)
100 Historical Photobooks by Women Photographers
Included in the reading room publication for How We See are ten lists of historical photobooks by women photographers from 1843 to 2010. These subjective lists (of ten books each) are provided by historians, librarians, curators and writers in the photography and photobook field. Historical selectors are: Sagrario Berti, Clara Bouveresse, Hinde Haest, Anne E. Havinga, Carole Naggar, Sayaka Takahashi, Barbara Tannenbaum, Jennifer Tobias, Stephanie H. Tung and the women on the 10×10 Photobooks team.
Photographers included within the historical lists are: Diane Arbus, Anna Atkins, Barbara Brandli, Margaret Bourke-White, Claude Cahun, Giesele Freund, Miyako Ishiuchi, Graciela Iturbide, Germaine Krull, Helen Levitt, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Hsin Wang, among others.
