Johanna Schär is a French and Swiss art historian specializing in photography. She won the Swiss Prize for encouraging research in art history in 2009. She has a strong interest in pictures, education and sustainability. Pictures of women is her first book.
Our environment is packed with pictures, often of poor quality, especially when it comes to pictures that depict women. These pictures are everywhere in our daily life, they highly standardized the way we see women today: they focus exclusively on women’s sex appeal, and in doing so, they omit to ...