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Arles Festival 2019: Three photographers challenge the image of the woman

Arles Festival 2019: Three photographers challenge the image of the woman

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Rencontres d’Arles has dedicated one of the most beautiful spaces in the city, the Espace Van Gogh, to women photographers. The festival pays tribute to a trio of politically engaged women—Abigail Heyman, Eve Arnold, and Susan Meiselas—who, in the early 1970s, contributed to the emancipation of women with their groundbreaking publications.

Abigail Heyman, Selfportrait, 1971 It is hard to think of a more potent opening to the exhibition than a self-portrait in a bathroom mirror: a woman facing her own reflection. The image sums up the tenor of the exhibition: women talking about w...

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