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International Women’s Day

To celebrate the International Women’s Day (today on March 8th), I wanted to show how, we photographers moved from seeing women as models and crude ones at that.

Here is how Bell & Howell was advertising its slide projectors in 1959.

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And if you think that this was pretty innocuous, think about the lives of women in many countries were photography and their images may not even be their priority.