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Frances Benjamin Johnston (January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952) was an American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and various photographic series featuring African Americans and Native Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.
Ianna Andreadis (born 1960), combines photography with her interest in archaeology, also landscapes from southern Africa; Venia Bechrakis (fl 2000s), artist and fine art photographer; Mary Kay (fl 2000s), landscape photographer; Nelly's (1899–1998), noted for her Greek temples, Berlin Olympics, later advertising, photo-reportages in the ...
Bahiyyah Clark, [1] [2] born Wendy Clark (c. 1962), better known by her stage name Lady B, is an American radio DJ and rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.She is one of the earliest female rappers in hip hop, and the first female hip hop artist to record a single, "To the Beat, Y'all", in 1979.
Joanne Leonard (born 1940), photography of Oakland, Ca, autobiographical and family, and collage beinginpictures.com; Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photography of New York City, photos of the fictional Fae Richards for the film The Watermelon Woman; Rebecca Lepkoff (1916–2014), street scenes on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1940s
An early woman amateur photographer. Kodak advertisement from 1918. The participation of women in photography goes back to the very origins of the process. Several of the earliest women photographers, most of whom were from Britain or France, were married to male pioneers or had close relationships with their families.
Lillian B. Allen (1904–1994), painter, teacher and nature photographer; Jennifer Alleyn (born 1969), filmmaker, writer and photographer; Evelyn Andrus (1909–1972), photographer; Sara Angelucci (born 1962), photography, video art; Raymonde April (born 1953), photographer and academic, awarded the Order of Canada for her contribution to ...
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression.
Margaret Bourke-White (/ ˈ b ɜːr k /; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. [1] She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan, [2] was the first American female war photojournalist, and took the photograph (of the construction of Fort Peck Dam) that became ...