Kodak Girl Ivory Flame © 2021 Patty Hankins
In the first decades of the twentieth-century, the Kodak Company ran an ongoing advertising campaign designed to encourage women to become photographers and recorders of their family’s travels, activities, milestone events and every day occurrences. Inspired by these ads, I’m creating photographs showing women as active photographers rather than the passive subject of a male photographer’s work that we so often see.
In the photograph, Ivory Flame is portrayed as a 1920’s woman photographing with her Ihagee Pocket Folding Camera.