Historical Heroines - Hundred Heroines

Historical Heroines from Australia

Ana Mendieta

Amelia Elizabeth Guppy

Georgiana Houghton and the Art of Spirit Photography

Alice Hughes

Hidden Histories: Claude Cahun

Historical Heroines born in September

Marie Cosindas

Elfriede Mejchar

Laura Aguilar

Thérèse Bonney

Alice Schalek

Zaida Ben-Yúsuf

Janet Jevons

Grete Kolliner

Abigail Heyman

Gerda Taro

Lena Connell

Jane Martha St. John

Shirley Baker

Alice Guy Blaché

5 Historical Heroines born in June

7 Historical Heroines born in May

5 Historical Heroines born in April

5 Historical Heroines born in March

Lora Webb Nichols

5 Historical Heroines born in February

Lallie Charles

Běla Kolářová

7 Historical Heroines born in January

5 Historical Heroines Born in December

Florence Vandamm

Arlene Gottfried

Pearl Freeman

5 Black women photographers to celebrate this Black History Month

Sarah Louise Judd

Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri

Emmy Eugenie Andriesse

Dorothy Wilding – Gloucester Archive

Signe Brander

Nancy Newhall

Dorothy Wilding Petition

Tee Corinne

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Pauline Jermyn Trevelyan

Jessie Mann

Clementina Hawarden

Ruth Harriet Louise

Carolee Schneemann

Margaret Gross Michaelis-Sachs

Liselotte Billigheimer Grschebina

Discovering Lee Miller: Part Two

Discovering Lee Miller: Part One

Dickey Chapelle

Jessie Tarbox Beals

Jan Groover

Hazel (Frieda) Larsen Archer

Heroines & The Crown

Ursula Pariser

Alice Austen

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Elisabeth Buchmeyer Lewis

Dorothy Wilding

Lady Mary Rosse

Caroline Taylor

Lady Caroline Emily Nevill

Bessie Rayner Parkes

Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann

Virginia Oldoïni

6 Women who photographed post-war America for LIFE Magazine

Margaret Bourke-White

Martha Holmes

Nina Leen

Marie Hansen

10 of my favourite female Bauhaus-trained photographers

Marianne Brandt

Gertrud Arndt

Hou Bo

Barbara Pflaum

Julia Diament Pirotte

Marta Hoepffner

Toni Frissell

Visiting Dimbola – the home of legendary photographer Julia Margaret Cameron

Ruby Washington

Zofia Rydet

Evelyn Hofer

Discovering legendary photographer Lee Miller at Farleys House

Emma Rayson Barton

Jane Bown CBE

Marion Post Wolcott

Thereza Rucker Story-Maskelyne

Olive Edis

Alexandra Boulat

Trude Fleischmann

Historical Heroines: Viennese Interwar Photographers

Shima Ryū

Elizabeth Le Blond

Elly Niebuhr

Minna Keene

Photographer Florence Henri featured in Women in Abstraction

7 Photographers to Honour this Refugee Day

Yva

Anne Fischer

Elisabeth Meyer

Marie Høeg

Grace Robertson

Helen Chadwick

Fay Godwin

Lou Landauer

5 Photographers Who Make Trans and Non-Binary Visible

Theatre of The City

Maud Sulter

Olive Cotton

Nancy Sheung

Unearthed: Photography’s Roots

Lisa Larsen

Vivian Maier

Agnès Varda

Stories No Longer Untold

Having Lived

Ruth Orkin

Ingeborg Strobl

Sibylle Bergemann

Fanny Foster

Jo Spence

Christina Broom

Madame d’Ora

Mariana Yampolsky

Betti Mautner

Gisele Wulfsohn

Constance Fox Talbot

Ann Cooke

Anna Atkins

Ida Kar

Dorothea Lange

Laure Albin-Guillot

Laura Gilpin

Isabel Agnes Cowper (Mrs Cowper)

Edith Barakovich

Homai Vyarawalla

Jane Louise Van Der Zee Toussaint Welcome

Inge Morath

Ruth Bernhard

Cecilia Glaisher

Imogen Cunningham

Cinderella

Esther Bubley

Karimeh Abbud

Berenice Abbott

Diane Arbus

Vera Jackson

Mary Dillwyn

Madame Yevonde

Eugenie Goldstern

Polixeni Papapetrou

Women and the Camera

Hannah Höch

Lisette Model

Ylla

Florestine Perrault Collins

Julia Margaret Cameron

Claude Cahun

Lee Miller Profile

Kati Horna

Hansel Mieth

Germaine Krull

Corinne Day

Constance Stuart Larrabee

Mary Ellen Mark

Lola Álvarez Bravo

Gertrude Käsebier

Franki Raffles

Lillian Bassman

Hilla Wobeser Becher

Ellen Auerbach

Khadija Saye

Lotte Jacobi

Ilse Bing

Helen Levitt

Edith Glogau

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

Martine Franck

Harriet Tytler

Gisèle Freund

Top 10 Historical Heroines

Claude Cahun Mini-Blog

Florence Henri

Eva Besnyö

Dora Maar

E. Lennie

Marion Palfi

Rose Mandel

Penny Tweedie

Cui Xiuwen

Helen Gee

Sue Steward

Jane Brown

Gertrude Kasebier

Catherine Leroy

Linda McCartney

Who was Margaret Harker?

Francesca Woodman

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