Digital Photographer - UK (2020-05)

PHOTOGRAPHERSA TIMELINE OF WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY, CHARTING THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS THEY ‘VE MADE

Anna Atkins1799-1871A friend of Henry Fox Talbot, Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She published

Photographs Of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions

, the first book with photographic

illustrations, and some sources claim that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

Julia Margaret Cameron1815-1879With a position in Victorian England’s high society, she captured many legendary figures

in her short career, which started at the age of 48. She often posed her various sitters as characters from biblical or historical stories, copyrighting all of her photos.

Mary Carnell1861-1925The American photographer and clubwoman, based in Pennsylvania, was

the founder and first president of the Women’s Federation of the Photographers’ Association of America.

Dorothea Lange1895-1965Co-founder of

Aperture

Magazine

, Lange is

responsible for one of the

most famous images in photographic history – ‘migrant mother’ Florence Owens Thompson during the Great Depression.

Tina Modotti1896-1942Italian photographer Modotti was a revolutionary activist for the Communist Party, as

well as a model and actress. Much of her work involved highlighting Mexican culture, which she began shooting in 1922.

Signe Brander1869-1942Brander documented the city of Helsinki and the everyday

lives of its inhabitants in the early 20th century. She created 907 photos of the changing cityscape.

Berenice Abbott1898-1991Abbott started as a darkroom assistant for Man Ray in Paris, but quickly established herself as a visual artist

in her own right. She is best known for portraits of between-the-wars cultural figures, urban design of the 1930s and scientific interpretation shots.

Margaret Bourke-White1904-1971Remembered for iconic images of World

War II and Gandhi at his spinning wheel. In 1941, she became the US’s first female war correspondent.

Bertha Beckmann1815–1901Beckmann was possibly the first professional female photographer

in the world, With her husband, she opened a studio in Leipzig, Germany in 1843 and ran the business herself after his death in 1847.

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