Martha Holmes (1923-2006) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering women photographers of the 1940s and 1950s.
Gabby Kynoch11th March 2022
Marie Hansen (1918 – 1969) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering female photographers of the 1940s and 1950s.
Gabby Kynoch11th March 2022
Explore 10 female photographers who studied at the Bauhaus’s campuses in Dessau and Weimar, before the schools were closed at the onset of the Second World War
Gabby Kynoch8th March 2022
Marianne Brandt (1893-1983) was a celebrated Bauhaus-trained industrial designer, photographer and pioneer of Modernist photomontage. She experimented with the array of imagery available in the new illustrated press to challenge gender roles and preconceptions.
Gabby Kynoch1st March 2022
Gertrud Arndt (1903 – 2000) was a German photographer and weaver trained at the Bauhaus between 1923 and 1927. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits ‘The Mask Portraits’ from around 1930.
Gabby Kynoch1st March 2022
Chinese photojournalist Hou Bo (1924 – 2017) documented the rise of Mao Zedong from 1939 to 1968 in over 400 photographs as the official photographer of The Great Leader. She created most of the iconic images of Mao’s reign but fell from favour during the Cultural Revolution and spent years in forced…
Gabby Kynoch31st January 2022
Barbara Pflaum (1912-2002) was an Austrian photographer and photojournalist, active in the 1950s until her retirement in 1977.
Katherine Riley10th January 2022
Polish photojournalist Julia Diament Pirotte (1908 –2000) is known for her work in Marseille during the Second World War, when she documented the French Resistance and life under the occupation from 1940-1945.
Gabby Kynoch6th January 2022
Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German experimental artist and abstract photographer. She was a pioneer of photomontage and the photogram in the 1930s and the kinetic art movement in the 1960s.
Gabby Kynoch4th January 2022
