ringl+pit
Petrole Hahn, Berlin, 1930
Silver print
10.25 x 11.75 inches
A Women’s History Month with Artists from Robert Mann Gallery
By: AnnaRose Goldwitz
Across generations and geographies, the women represented by Robert Mann Gallery — Holly Andres, Ellen Auerbach, Cig Harvey, Michiko Kon, and Ringl + Pit — construct images that resist passive looking. Their works do not simply depict women; they stage, fragment, obscure, and reimagine them. Taken together, these artists trace a lineage of photographic resistance — one that challenges the authority of the gaze while reclaiming authorship over the image.
What unites these artists is not a singular aesthetic but a shared commitment to rethinking how women are seen — and how they see. From the staged psychological spaces of Holly Andres to the avant-garde interventions of Ringl + Pit, from Cig Harvey’s sensory poetics to Michiko Kon’s material surrealism, each artist disrupts the expectation that images should be transparent or easily legible.
Instead, they insist on opacity, complexity, and authorship.
For Women’s History Month, this grouping does more than celebrate women photographers — it underscores the radical potential of image-making as a site of resistance. These works remind us that to photograph is not merely to capture, but to construct, question, and ultimately, to reclaim the terms of visibility itself.
Read full article on Musée Magazine's website.