Marie Hansen
Marie Hansen (1918 – 1969) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering female photographers of the 1940s and 1950s....
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Marie Høeg
A prominent member of the Norwegian feminist movement in Horton, Marie Høeg along with partner Bolette Berg, experimented with gender identity and performance....
Marion Palfi
Marion Palfi was a German American social documentary photographer, focusing on discrimination and civil rights within America...
Marion Post Wolcott
After studying under Trude Fleischmann in Vienna, Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990) traveled back to America to document the rural south...
Marta Hoepffner
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
Martha Holmes (1923-2006) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering women photographers of the 1940s and 1950s....
Mary Dillwyn
Pioneering photographer who worked during the 1840s and 1850s, is widely considered to be the earliest female photographer in Wales....
Minna Keene
Often referred to as Canada’s first professional woman photographer, Minna was born in Germany in 1861....
Nancy Newhall
Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography writer and curator, and the co-founder of Aperture Magazine....
Nancy Sheung
Chinese photographer Nancy Sheung was determined to break all the rules and conventions of her time, with unusual means to success....
