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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Fanny Foster was a British photographer hired to document the 1929-1931 archaeological excavation at the Vinča-Belo Brdo tell in modern-day Serbia...
Florence Henri did not just live through arguably the most exciting period in the history of art – she was at its very frontier...
Florestine Perrault Collins navigated the social expectations of her race and gender to give visibility to Black women in 1920's New Orleans....
The work of Francesca Woodman, and life, is often cast with an air of melancholy. Discover her self-proclaimed "ghost pictures"....
The Bauhaus-trained Austrian designer and artist who was killed in the Holocaust has recently become better known for her painting and art therapy than photography. But in the early 30’s she produced powerful anti-fascist photomontages...
Gerda Taro has both the distinction of being one of the first female war photographers, and the first to die in the line of work as in 1937....
Germaine Krull was the groundbreaking photographer who influential surrealist Man Ray named his artistic equal...
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....
For legendary photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photography was a means to escape an unhappy marriage and become financially independent....
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