A Time Capsule of the American Feminist Landscape (Photos)

At the 38th Annual Photography Show, April 4-8 in New York, presented by AIPAD, Throckmorton Fine Art will host a special exhibition by the widely published New York photographer Lynn Gilbert. "Women: A Time Capsule of the American Feminist Landscape" is a limited-edition portfolio of iconic portraits of the women who transformed the American landscape in the second wave of feminism for women on the path to equality.

Photographed by Lynn Gilbert in the years between 1976 and 1980 for Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Shaped Our Times, the portfolio features 12 pioneering women of the 20th century from the arts and sciences, politics and law, mathematics and athletics, who blazed paths in traditionally male fields, opening doors for future generations of American women, and by example, women worldwide.

Only 12 portfolios are being offered in this limited-edition. Each of the silver gelatin, selenium- toned prints is 16 x 20, signed by the artist, and mounted in a presentation box. Prints are by master printer John Delaney, who printed for Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Annie Leibovitz among others. Gilbert is contributing a portion of the sales to the ERA movement.

"Coinciding with Women's History Month in March, on the heels of the record-setting 2017 Women's March, the #MeToo movement, and resurgence of efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, we feel this show could not be more timely or valuable."-- Spencer Throckmorton

This new portfolio of 12 portraits comes from a body of work of 46 women, including Bella Abzug, Julia Child, Joan Ganz Cooney, Betty Friedan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Grace Murray Hopper, Lucy Jarvis, Billie Jean King, Louise Nevelson, Diana Vreeland, Gloria Steinem, and Barbara Walters.

Lynn Gilbert's portraits are included in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., the New York Historical Society, and the collections of Vassar and Yale.