Here are five Black women photographers, among many, who have made a lasting impact on the trajectory of photography and the visual arts.
Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953) was a Dutch humanist photographer best known for her street photography for the Underground Camera group during the Second World War.
Margarethe (Margaret) Gross was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Dzieditz, near Cracow, in what was then Austria (now Poland). Her liberal upbringing led her to studying photography at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Research in Vienna, followed by apprenticeships in some of the leading Viennese studios of the 1920s including the prestigious Studio d’Ora, where she worked in the New Photography style, advertising, and fashion.
Liselotte studied painting and graphic design at her local art academy – Badische Landeskunstschule, Karlsruhe (BLK) – and took up the then–new course in advertising photography at the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart.
Grete attended the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt from 1910 – 1915 and worked as an assistant at the school until 1916.
Hundred Heroines’s Fanny Beckman revisits photographer Marilyn Stafford to discuss her decades spanning career
Hannah Collins presents her haunting new exhibition across two Maureen Paley galleries in London until October 2021
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Last Cruze documents the industry collapse of a town in Lordstown, Ohio, on view at CAAM, California until March 20, 2022.
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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