Photographing women: The Rising and after

Gail Baylis; Sarah Edge

doi:10.4324/9781003367611

Photographing women: The Rising and after

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To understand the historicity of a photograph requires a mapping of the broader frame in which photographs communicate. This chapter reveals why such an approach is pertinent in rebuilding the photographic record we have of women during the 1916 Rising and after. Examining photographs of Countess Markievicz, it discloses how female political agency took a number of forms, from a pre-Rising fashioning of a revolutionary self-image to a post-Rising use of photographs to re-secure traditional class-based femininity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Companion to Irish Art
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	14
Number of pages	12
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003367611
ISBN (Print)	9781032434933
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003367611
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 29 Apr 2025

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© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Fionna Barber and Fintan Cullen; individual chapters, the contributors.

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