By Ruby Mitchell: Alice Schalek (1874-1956) was born in Vienna and before becoming a war photographer, she published novels under the pseudonym Paul Michaely.
Del Barrett21st August 2024
By Paula Vellet: Grete Kolliner was an Austrian photographer whose innovative work captured movement and dramatic poses.
PlanetHeroines14th August 2024
The first UK retrospective of work by Evelyn Hofer has recently opened at The Photographers' Gallery, London.
Katherine Riley18th July 2023
Body Politics traces Carolee Schneemann's transgressive, interdisciplinary artistic expression over six decades.
Katherine Riley22nd December 2022
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…
PlanetHeroines15th December 2022
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.
PlanetHeroines13th December 2022
LAST CHANCE TO SEE: The Countess of Castiglione. A new London exhibition highlights one of the greatest figures in the history of photography
PlanetHeroines3rd August 2022
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.
PlanetHeroines25th July 2022
