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Helen Levitt (1907–2009), street photography around New York City; Jacqueline Livingston (1943–2013), women's role, sexual intimacy; Ruth Harriet Louise (1903–1940), first woman photographer active in Hollywood, running Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930; Layla Love (born 1979), fine art photographer
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) is best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City from 1929 to 1938. Much of the work was created under the Federal Art Project ; a selection was first published in book form in 1939 as Changing New York .
Diane Arbus (/ d iː ˈ æ n ˈ ɑːr b ə s /; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971 [2]) was an American photographer. [3] [4] She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. [5]
Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978), Iranian-Canadian photographer and curator, installation based photography; Shirin Neshat (born 1957), photos of women confronted by Islamic fundamentalism, later working with multimedia and film; Ashraf os-Saltaneh (1863–1914), first woman photographer of Iran; Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974), conceptual photography ...
William John Cunningham Jr. (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid and street photography. A Harvard University dropout, he first became known as a designer of women's hats before moving on to writing about fashion for Women's Wear Daily and the Chicago Tribune.
Alice Boughton was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 14 May 1866. [1] [2] Her parents were Frances Ayres and William H. Boughton, a lawyer in New York. [3]She studied photography and became a well known portrait photographer in New York by the early 1900s.
New York City, New York, U.S. The photo of her body, taken by Robert Wiles, was published in Life magazine. [ 1 ] It has been compared to the photograph by Malcolm Browne of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức , who burned himself alive at a busy Saigon road intersection in 1963; both are widely regarded as ...
Francesca Stern Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show women, naked or clothed, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured.