Estelle Jussim
author
Estelle Jussim (1927–2004) was a distinguished American historian of photography, writer, and professor. She taught at Simmons College in Boston for over two decades. Jussim was recognized as one of the most influential voices in photography and media, writing extensively on visual communication, photographic history, and movements without being restricted by any single critical ideology. Her work incorporated postmodern, deconstructionist, and feminist viewpoints. She served as a consultant to various photographic archives.[1,2]
- visual communication
- photographic history
- media theory
- feminism
- postmodernism
Books
Works by Estelle Jussim
- 1974 Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts
- 1985 Landscape as Photograph
- 1981 Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day Won the New-York Historical Society's prize for a work in the history of photography.
- The Eternal Moment: Essays on the Photographic Image
Awards
- 1981 New-York Historical Society's Prize for a work in the history of photography