The Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House

The Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House

The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens frames the story differently depending on who is doing the looking, and how. So what are we to make of the images of a woman in a glass house, the history of which has been obscured by a patriarchal culture’s short-sighted view? In her book Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth (2025), essayist, artist, and architect Nora Wendl “explodes the s…