Kate Millett
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Object Details
- Artist
- Frederick William McDarrah, 5 Nov 1926 - 6 Nov 2007
- Sitter
- Kate Millett, 14 Sep 1934 - 6 Sep 2017
- Exhibition Label
- Born St. Paul, Minnesota
- Fred McDarrah’s photograph portrays feminist writer, activist, and artist Kate Millett in 1970, the year she published her first book, Sexual Politics, a best-selling touchstone for the second wave of the women’s movement. Based on Millett’s doctoral dissertation, the book deploys feminist literary criticism to uncover misogynist tropes embedded in the novels of Henry Miller, D. H. Lawrence, and other writers often hailed as sexual revolutionaries.
- McDarrah, the first staff photographer for the Village Voice, shows Millett happily marching down New York City’s Fifth Avenue, during a parade commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Later, at a rally in Bryant Park, Millett spoke before an exuberant crowd, exclaiming “today is the end of millenniums of oppression.”
- Nacida en St. Paul, Minnesota
- Esta fotografía de Fred McDarrah muestra a la escritora, activista y artista feminista Kate Millett en 1970, año en que publicó su primer libro, Política sexual, éxito de ventas y texto esencial para la segunda ola del movimiento feminista. Basado en la tesis doctoral de Millett, el libro emplea la crítica literaria feminista para poner al descubierto tópicos misóginos en las novelas de Henry Miller, D. H. Lawrence y otros escritores aclamados como revolucionarios en los temas sexuales.
- McDarrah, primer fotógrafo de plantilla del Village Voice, muestra a Millett marchando alegremente por la Quinta Avenida de Nueva York durante un desfile en el 50 aniversario de la Enmienda 19 de la Constitución, que otorgó a las mujeres el derecho al voto. Más tarde, en un mitin en Bryant Park, Millett se dirigió a una multitud eufórica y exclamó “hoy acaban milenios de opresión”.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1970
- Object number
- NPG.2001.41
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.7 x 15.3cm (8 15/16 x 6")
- Sheet: 25.3 x 20.5cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/16")
- Mat: 45.7 x 35.6cm (18 x 14")
- Place
- United States\New York\Kings\New York
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses
- Exterior\Cityscape
- Artwork\Poster
- Kate Millett: Female
- Kate Millett: Literature\Writer
- Kate Millett: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Feminist
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2001.41
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm477fe408c-2346-4ccc-9082-1fda5441e608
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