BIG READ: In full colour: celebrating underrecognised women of a century past
In ‘A Woman’s World: 1850-1960’ colourised old photographs shed light on the importance of women
04 April 2023 - 05:00
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” wrote literary innovator Virginia Woolf in her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own.
It’s an appropriate quote to open A Woman’s World: 1850-1960, the third collaboration between photographic artist Marina Amaral and historian Dan Jones. Their work brings new perspectives to history, in this instance by focusing, in full colour, on the experiences of women in the century before the watershed 1960s feminist decade...
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