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Self portrait, 1848. Lilly Martin Spencer was born in Exeter, England, to French-born parents Gilles Marie Martin and Angelique Perrine lePetit Martin.In 1830, when Lilly was eight, her family immigrated to New York where they remained for three years before ultimately moving to Marietta, Ohio.
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [ 49 ] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War , becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline.
National Geographic Image Collection (1888–present), collection of more than 10 million digital images, transparencies, b&w prints, early auto chromes, and pieces of original artwork New York Daily News (1880–2007), online photo archive DailyNewsPix, with photographs dating back to 1880 New York Public Library: ≈ 30% Public domain
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Women in Native American communities have been producing art intertwined with spirituality, life, and beauty for centuries. Women have worked to produce traditional art, passing these crafts down generation by generation, as well as contemporary art in the form of photography, printmaking, and performance art. [1]
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.
Anita Florence Hemmings (June 8, 1872 – 1960) was known as the first African American woman to graduate from Vassar College. [1] As she was of both African and European ancestry, she passed as white for socioeconomic benefits. After graduation, Hemmings became a librarian at the Boston Public Library.
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