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These wonderful books include photographs, stories, reports and research by and about women
around the world. (P.S. There are even more in the bibliography of Celebrating Women.)

 
Illustrated Books
 

Women Who Light the Dark. Don’t miss it! Click here.

Celebrating Women. Color photographs of 17 festivals in 15 countries that celebrate women’s attributes and accomplishments.
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In Her Hands, Craftswomen Changing the World, Paola Gianturco’s first book, was created with Toby Tuttle. They traveled to 28 villages on 4 continents to document the lives of heroic women artisans living on less than $1 a day, who are feeding and educating their children with the money they earn.
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The cacophony of color that assaults you when you visit Guatemala is no accident. It’s a profound manifestation of the irrepressible vitality and valor of an indomitable people who have endured and gained strength from their difficulties, traditions, land, spiritual beliefs, and kinships. ¡Viva Colores! profiles forty-one everyday heroes who are shaping their nation's future. Photographs by Paola Gianturco, text by David Hill.
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Love. The introduction was written by Kim Phuk, whom you will remember seeing in the 1972 news photograph: a little Vietnamese girl running naked down the road, her skin on fire with napalm. The photographer who took that picture rushed her to the hospital. Today, she lives in Canada and is a good will ambassador for UNESCO. Love is brimming with images taken all over the world, selected from the project titled MILK (Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship) that has produced photography exhibits, cards, and books in six languages.
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Dogon People of the Cliffs. Despite the pressures of the expansion of Islam and
tourism, the cliff-dwelling Dogon people of Mali maintain their ancient animist culture.
Agnes Pataux’s arresting black and white images document the Dogon people and the stark environment in which they live.
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Tribes of the Great Rift Valley.Photojournalist Elizabeth L. Gilbert’s traveled move than 3,000 Miles between Eritrea and Malawi to document 25 African ethnic groups. Her intimate black and white photographs of endangered cultures feel, Vogue comments, “urgent and essential.”
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Halo of the Sun. Noel Bennett, a Persian-American woman weaver, lived on a Navajo Indian reservation for eight years. Over time, she gained the trust of the Navajo women who taught her to weave as they did, and shared their legends.
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In National Geographic’s Eighth Atlas of the World is not only an invaluable
reference, it’s fascinating reading. It maps
the physical and political world as well as
human activities as diverse as population
migration, terrorism, culture and war. There
are maps of the world’s interior and satellite photographs (night shots show where people have electricity or only fire). Celebratingwomen.com focuses on materials “by, for and about” women,
but this book is too useful to leave out. (While we’re talking about National Geo, check out their website’s “photo of the day,” which can be printed as a poster, emailed, or used on your computer desktop.)
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Women of the World
. Claudia Demonte collected 174 pieces of art from as many countries, each an 8” x 8” answer to the question, “Who is woman, what is she?

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African Ceremonies. Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith have photographed Africa for over three decades. This book took ten years. It covers sacred ceremonies all over the continent, a visual journeys through the meaning and power of traditional rituals. The book includes 43 ceremonies in 26 countries, now beautifully documented before they disappear; it’s a two volume tour de force.
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Penguin Atlas of Women in the World is brimming with information-rich maps created by Myriad Editions, UK to show patterns and problems that depict women’s lives around the globe: their work, health, education and personal freedom.
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Persepolis, The Story of a Childhood is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, a story she tells in black-and-white comic strips. As the great granddaughter of one Iran's last emperors, her story is a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression — and a introduction to a loveable little girl.
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Images of the SpiritIn pictures taken of cultures in her native Mexico, Graciela Iturbide perceives the surreal and the marvelous: a mix of history, lyricism and portraiture, identity, diversity and selfhood.
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Ndebele. For generations, Ndebele women have made rich ceremonial beadwork and large murals on the exterior walls of their mud dwellings, but Margaret Courtney-Clarke was the first to photograph this remarkable artistry.
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Women in the Material World. Faith D'Alusio and a team of female photojournalists visited 20 countries to create photo essays about women’s hopes, dreams sorrows, and joys.
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Women Photographers at National Geographic The magazine has employed many women as freelance photographers since 1953 when the first woman joined the photographic staff. This book features images by women who shoot for National Geographic all over the world. MORE

 

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Headwraps. Georgia Scott left her job as an art director for the New York Times, stored everything she owned, and spent a year photographing headwraps in 32 countries.
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Wise Women. Joyce Tenneson traveled throughout America to photograph and interview women whose ages ranged from65 to 100.  Rather than the frail stereotypeof aging that North American society has fostered in the past, she found accomplished women who were vital, energetic, beautiful inside and out.
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Eye To Eye-Women. Features the words and worlds of women from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, as seen in photographs and fiction by each region’s top women writers.
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Tribe of Women. Connie Bickman, a photojournalist who lives in Minnesota, began her spiritual and physical travels in 1989. Over ten years, she visited women in 18 countries. “Though we may travel far and in many directions…every being is a mirror to our own divine self,” she writes.
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