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Jessie Tarbox Beals

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Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 –1942), Canadian-born American photographer and photojournalist, was the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She documented Greenwich Village and the major figures and events of New York from the Victorian era up to the Depression.

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Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham

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Imogen Cunningham, The Unmade Bed, 1957, ©  Imogen Cunningham Trust www.imogencunningham.com Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) American photographer One of the first professional female photographers in the US and the most experimental and independent, Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon. She was inspired to become a photographer by the great portraitist Gertrude Kasebier...
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