Women Looking at Women Looking at Women (2022)

The publication Women Looking at Women Looking at Women: Reclaiming Histories of Women in the Arts and Proposing Models to Facilitate Future Friendships written by Annemarie Wadlow was solely designed by women, from cover to paper, from typeface to printing.

In what ways have women artists come together to investigate their own image? This publication delves into histories of feminist and queer collective practice, expanding on the various ways women claim agency of their identity, via collaborations that connect intergenerational and far-away friendships. Each chapter features artistic and theoretical case studies that discuss images produced by women artists, about women artists; proposing that to gaze upon someone represented with care and autonomy provides more affirmative ways to relate to ourselves. It discovers that to pay homage to overlooked knowledge of women artists builds a case for the artist as researcher. Only by engaging in both roles can we unveil what is not taught in the mainstream and inspire a more inclusive, generous future.

Each aspect of the book’s design is a collaborative endeavour, expanding the notion of individual authorship. It is with this sentiment that creating the publication became research in itself, via collaboration with both direct peers and an extended genealogy.

Annemarie Wadlow (1993, UK) is a research-led artist working between moving image, writing and photography. Her work explores the middle ground between image and imagination, questioning notions of inheritance, personal identity and belonging. Wadlow won the first #PageNotFoundThesisAward in 2020, making the publication of Women Looking at Women Looking at Women possible by Page Not Found, Den Haag.

Shortlist best book design from all over the world 2023

• Stiftung Buchkunst

Selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs for 2022

• Best Verzorgde Boeken 2022

Available through:

• Idea Books
• Bookshops. Distributed by Jesse Presse

Details:

• Commissioned by:

  Annemarie Wadlow

• Writing:

  Annemarie Wadlow

• Design:

  A collective effort by Marijn van der Leeuw, India Scrimgeour Esther Vane, Annemarie Wadlow and Hannah Williams

• Writing supervision

  Delphine Bedel

• Copy-editing

  Eline Benjaminsen and Lucy Cordes Engelman

• Published by Page Not Found, Den Haag.

• Printing & binding

  Die Keure

• Paper:

  IBO one 60g/m2, developed by Irma Boom & Igepa

• Used typefaces

  Cover, abstract, contents & conclusion: Adobe Saslon Pro by Carol Twombly and DeiGratia by Pia Frauss

  Introduction: Calyces by Charlotte Rohde & MalaTesta by Pia Frauss

  Chapter 1: Chimera by Maria Doreuli

  Chapter 2: Rosart by Katharina Köhler and Genesis by Theresa Scherrer

  Chapter 3: Ovo by Nicole Fally