EIGHT GIRLS TAKING PICTURES

This is a romantic and sweeping novel about the lives, loves and conflicts of eight famous female photographers spanning the 20th Century.

A deeply affecting exploration of the lives of female artists, this novel chronicles the experiences of eight female photographers throughout the 20th century. Bestselling author Whitney Otto seamlessly weaves together eight interconnected stories that imagine the lives of the world's most famous female photographers: Imogen Cunningham, Madame Yevonde, Tina Modotti, Lee Miller, Grete Stern and Ellen Aurbach, Ruth Orkin, Judy Dater and Sally Mann. This cast of spectacular, spirited, larger-than-life women is drawn from a mix of fact and invention. From San Francisco to New York, London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Rome, Eight Girls Taking Pictures breezes across a world that is romantic, vividly portrayed and at times almost magical.

Eight Girls Taking Pictures offers a portrait gallery of women across time. In addition to sweeping romance, Otto offers an epic and compelling portrait of the history of feminism. EIGHT GIRLS TAKING PICTURES is about women and the tension they experiencebetween wanting a private life or a public life; love or passion; art or domesticity; children or creative freedom. Circumstances may differ, but female desires, conflicts, dreams, and aspirations remain the same.

Whitney Otto is the bestselling author of How to Make an American Quilt (which was made into a feature film), Now You See Her, The Passion Dream Book, and A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity. She lives in Portland, Oregon.