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AT 39, Joyce Tenneson gave up her job as a photography professor in Washington and moved to the run-down garment district of New York. For Tenneson, whose work had been highly regarded in art circles for more than two decades, it was a question of "reclaiming an identity".
The spoils of the battle fought by seventies' feminists came a little late for women of her generation. Married shortly after college graduation, she feels women of her age were "the ones who got burnt". When she began work as a creative photographer, women's photography was seen as inconsequential and, like many, she had to combat a deeply rooted chauvinism: "My photographs were dismissed as 'women's work'."
Now 47, she is recognised as one of those rare women in contemporary art who...