From Alice to Yva, explore the archive of Historical Heroines and learn about the rich lives and careers of pioneering women photographers. As we continue our mission, our online archives will continue grow.
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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....
Martha Holmes (1923-2006) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering women photographers of the 1940s and 1950s....
Pioneering photographer who worked during the 1840s and 1850s, is widely considered to be the earliest female photographer in Wales....
Often referred to as Canada’s first professional woman photographer, Minna was born in Germany in 1861....
Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography writer and curator, and the co-founder of Aperture Magazine....
Chinese photographer Nancy Sheung was determined to break all the rules and conventions of her time, with unusual means to success....
Nina Leen (1914-1995) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering female photographers of the 1940s and 1950s...
Norah documented the early years of British suffrage and the ground-breaking work of socialist Sylvia Pankhurst in London’s East End....
Olive Cotton was one of the most important 20th century Australian modernist photographers. Based in Cowra, her pioneering work spanned the 1930s and 40s...
Mary Olive Edis (1876-1955) opened her first studio with sister in Norfolk, UK. She was one of the first women to accepted as a member of the RPS....
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