WOMEN ARTISTS NEWS
Judy Seigel co-founded the Women Artists News in 1975 with publisher Cynthia Navaretta and founding editors Pat Passlof and Donna Marxer, with design director Susan Schwalb soon joining. Written by and for women artists for more than 17 years, the journal chronicled the creativity, politics, and protests of the Second Wave feminist arts movement battling for recognition in a canon that had all but shut out women.
WAN's 600-plus contributors included Adrian Piper, Cassandra Langer, Faith Ringgold, Joan Semmel, Joyce Kozloff, Lowery Sims, Lucy Lippard, Martha Edelheit, Mary Beth Edelson, May Stevens, and Miriam Schapiro, among many other now-legendary names.
To make this primary source of the feminist art movement more readily accessible today, the Judy Seigel Estate spearheaded a project to digitize all 94 issues including 3,000 articles into fully searchable, downloadable text. Explore the Women Artists News Database today.
POST FACTORY PHOTOGRAPHY
Between 1998 and 2004, Judy Seigel’s “World Journal of Post-Factory Photography” emerged as the indispensable bible for alternative photography's revival. The first stand-alone alt-photo publication in the U.S., the journal helped fuel rediscovery of the expressive possibilities of 19th-century processes worldwide, offering both practical guidance and philosophical depth.
Publishing from Greenwich Village, Seigel coined the term "post-factory" to capture photographers embracing labor-intensive handwork as digital reproducibility took over. Subscribers in 33 countries called it a "perfect combination of technicalia and artspeak." For her expertise and innovations, Christopher James dubbed her and the publication "a legend in the elucidation of alternative processes."
BOOKS
MUTINY AND THE MAINSTREAM
Judy Seigel conceived and edited this anthology of more than 200 artist talks, panel discussions, and interviews — reported by Women Artists News writers covering the New York art world live. Her own substantial opening chapter and individual introductions to each section provide the intellectual framework, wit, and context — praised by Art Journal as “just plain wonderful, with all the endearing cussedness of the mud-slinging love fest that is the New York art community.”
The book captures fifteen years of turmoil in the art world’s own voice amid full-blown “panel fever”: artists, critics, curators, and dealers speaking candidly about the uproar surrounding pluralism, Pattern and Decoration, Neo-Expressionism, multiculturalism, postmodern photography, and the conviction that the personal is political.
Long out of print but still a compelling read, Mutiny remains a lively primary source document of a pivotal era. Used copies are available online.
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