Frances Benjamin Johnston is recognised as one of the first women of American photography and one of its first LGBT+ practitioners.
An art patron and collector of early photography, Pauline Jermyn Trevelyan (1816-1866) started her own photographic work creating sketches using a camera lucida while travelling Europe with her husband, an aristocrat geologist and botanist.
Born in Perth on 20th January 1805, Jessie Mann (1805-1867) is regarded as the first Scottish woman photographer.
Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) was a prolific amateur photographer, best known for taking portraits of her daughters
Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019) was an experimental visual artist known for her works on the body, sexuality, and gender.
Margarethe (Margaret) Gross was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Dzieditz, near Cracow, in what was then Austria (now Poland). Her liberal upbringing led her to studying photography at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Research in Vienna, followed by apprenticeships in some of the leading Viennese studios of the 1920s including the prestigious Studio d’Ora, where she worked in the New Photography style, advertising, and fashion.
Liselotte studied painting and graphic design at her local art academy – Badische Landeskunstschule, Karlsruhe (BLK) – and took up the then–new course in advertising photography at the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart.
In part two of our interview with Ami Bouhassane, we find out about Lee’s pioneering war correspondence and later work.
In part one of our interview with Ami Bouhassane, we find out about Lee Miller’s early career and the history of the Lee Miller Archives.
Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American performance artist, filmmaker, sculptor, and painter known for her ‘earth-body’ artwork.
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