Introduction

What does the title of the photograph of actress Georgia Cayvan tell you about the character she is shown playing in that photograph? If you do not know the plot of the 19th century play The Amazons, what other stories can you refer to as context for this image? Who were the Amazons? What can their stories tell us about a 19th-century play about women? What does the dress of the woman in this photograph tell us about her character?

How can you relate the image attributed to artist Isabelle Raymond to the photograph of Georgia Cayvan? What do you see when you look at this stereograph? Are you disturbed by the images? Why? What do they seem to say about gender?

How do the images in this juxtaposition relate to each other? What stories do they tell?