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Picturing Progress: Hungarian Women Photographers 1910-1946
Location:
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20008
Date:
Fri, Mar 20th 2009, 10:00 am
to
Sun, Jul 5th 2009, 5:00 pm
At the turn of the twentieth century, photography afforded Hungarian women their first legitimate chance to become professional artists. Inspired by the successes of their American counterparts, they took advantage of their new-found freedoms by training at prestigious European institutions. Between the two World Wars, the number of women photographers and women-owned studios in Hungary greatly increased. This exhibition explores careers of women photog...
