![Sepia photograph. Carolee swings from a rope while making pencil marks on a white wall and floor.](https://hundredheroines.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/12_Up-to-and-Including-Her-Limits.jpg)
Body Politics traces Carolee Schneemann's transgressive, interdisciplinary artistic expression over six decades.
Katherine Riley22nd December 2022
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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
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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
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Grete attended the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt from 1910 – 1915 and worked as an assistant at the school until 1916.
PlanetHeroines10th November 2022
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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
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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.
PlanetHeroines25th July 2022
![A group of brown bottles stands on a table, beside a cactus, a lemon, and a small sculpture of a cherub.](https://hundredheroines.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GALERIE-MIRANDA-for-Jan-Groover-Groover-Untitled-FS38-1-1987.jpg)
American photographer Jan Groover experimented with space, light, colour, and form in painterly, large-format still lives.
PlanetHeroines25th July 2022
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Hazel Larsen Archer 's photos provide an invaluable record of their era, and of a group of avant-garde artists that changed American art.
PlanetHeroines25th July 2022