Historical Heroines
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.
Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) was a prolific amateur photographer, best known for taking portraits of her daughters
Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019) was an experimental visual artist known for her works on the body, sexuality, and gender.
Born on this day in 1869, Anne Brigman “freed herself and the women she photographed from corsets and clichés”. How did she do this?
In part two of our interview with Ami Bouhassane, we find out about Lee’s pioneering war correspondence and later work.
In part one of our interview with Ami Bouhassane, we find out about Lee Miller’s early career and the history of the Lee Miller Archives.
Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American performance artist, filmmaker, sculptor, and painter known for her ‘earth-body’ artwork.
Until 19th November, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London are displaying a series of contact prints by the celebrated surrealist artist Dora Maar.
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