Historical Heroines
Signe Brander (1869 – 1942) was a Swedish-Finnish photographer celebrated for documenting urban and cultural change in the city of Helsinki.
Florence Vandamm (1883 – 1996) was a portrait photographer who photographed over 2,000 Broadway productions in New York.
Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography writer and curator, and the co-founder of Aperture Magazine.
Recently published by MACK, Francesca Woodman: The Artist’s Books encapsulates the ethereal artistry of the late American photographer.
From its inception in the 19th century to the innovations of the present, photography has a rich history. Taking A New Power: Photography in Britain 1800 – 1850 (ST Lee Gallery, Weston Library, Oxford, UK, 1st Feb – 7th May) as a starting point, HH Volunteer writer Emery charts the trajectory of its incredible story.
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.
Ruth Harriet Louise was the first woman to run the MGM portrait studio.
Frances Benjamin Johnston is recognised as one of the first women of American photography and one of its first LGBT+ practitioners.
An art patron and collector of early photography, Pauline Jermyn Trevelyan (1816-1866) started her own photographic work creating sketches using a camera lucida while travelling Europe with her husband, an aristocrat geologist and botanist.
Born in Perth on 20th January 1805, Jessie Mann (1805-1867) is regarded as the first Scottish woman photographer.
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