Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography writer and curator, and the co-founder of Aperture Magazine.
Katherine Riley17th August 2023
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…
PlanetHeroines14th June 2023
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.
PlanetHeroines22nd May 2023
Frances Benjamin Johnston is recognised as one of the first women of American photography and one of its first LGBT+ practitioners.
Katherine Riley23rd February 2023
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.
PlanetHeroines19th January 2023
Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) was a prolific amateur photographer, best known for taking portraits of her daughters
Del Barrett19th January 2023
Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019) was an experimental visual artist known for her works on the body, sexuality, and gender.
Katherine Riley22nd December 2022
Born on this day in 1869, Anne Brigman "freed herself and the women she photographed from corsets and clichés". How did she do this?
Del Barrett3rd December 2022
