Guided Tour for Members: Women War Photographers

Exclusive guided tour for members of the Friends’ Association Fotomuseum Winterthur through the exhibition Women War Photographers. Following the tour, an aperitif will be served in the foyer of the museum, where questions about the exhibition can be discussed.

The tour will take place in German.

This event is free of charge and exclusively for members of the Friends’ Association Fotomuseum Winterthur. Memberships can be purchased on site.

The exhibition Women War Photographers – From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus is devoted to photojournalistic coverage of international wars and conflicts. On display are some 140 images shot between 1936 and 2011 by a number of women photojournalists and documentary photographers: Carolyn Cole (*1961), Françoise Demulder (1947–2008), Catherine Leroy (1944–2006), Susan Meiselas (*1948), Lee Miller (1907–1977), Anja Niedringhaus (1965–2014), Christine Spengler (*1945) and Gerda Taro (1910–1937). Their pictures provide a fragmentary insight into the complex reality of war, taking in a range of military theatres from the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War to more recent international conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

Image: Susan Meiselas, Wall, Managua, Nicaragua, 1979. © Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos