Ruth Harriet Louise
Ruth Harriet Louise was the first woman to run the MGM portrait studio....
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Legacy Heroines
Heroines of the past who were active at some point between the mid-20th century and the early 21st century.
From Agnès to Ylla, explore the archive of Legacy 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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Ruth Orkin
Photojournalist Ruth Orkin was voted one of the Top Ten Women Photographers by the Professional Photographers of America in 1959...
Sarah Louise Judd
Sarah Louse Judd (1802 – 1886) was the first commercial photographer in Minnesota and first schoolteacher in Washington County. She experimented with daguerreotypes during the spring of 1848 for two years in Stillwater....
Sibylle Bergemann
Sibylle Bergemann has been hailed as ‘one of the most important German photographers of the last decades’...
Tee Corinne
Tee Corinne, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1943, was a prolific lesbian writer, artist, sex educator, historian, and feminist, famous for her content which explores the intersections of feminism and sexuality....
Toni Frissell
Born into a wealthy New York banking family, legendary photographer Antoinette ‘Toni’ Frissell Bacon (1907 – 1988) was introduced to photography in her twenties by her filmmaker brother Varick....
Věra Chytilová
Acclaimed Czech filmmaker,Věra Chytilová, known for her surrealist approach to cinema....
Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier is one of the most prolific and distinctive American photographers of the mid to late twentieth century...
Zofia Rydet
For Zofia Rydet (1911-1997), photography was the perfect medium to express all human stories; through her work, she felt that she was capturing the essence of what it meant to be human....
