
In the first decades of the twentieth century, high-end portrait photography was dominated by women such as Anni Schulz (1897-1943) and Marianne Bergler (Blumberger) (1897-1980), Trude Neumann Geiringer (1890 – 1981) and Dora Horovitz (1894 – 1959).
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, high-end portrait photography was dominated by women such as Anni Schulz (1897-1943) and Marianne Bergler (Blumberger) (1897-1980), Trude Neumann Geiringer (1890 – 1981) and Dora Horovitz (1894 – 1959).
The uplifting exhibition, Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, features women photographers at IWM London, on view until January 2022.
Elly Niebuhr (1914 – 2013) became one of the most sought after fashion and advertising photographers in Vienna during the 1950s.
Often referred to as Canada’s first professional woman photographer, Minna was born in Germany in 1861.
Florence Henri among other Historical Heroines on display in ‘Women in Abstraction’, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. On view until August 23, 2021
To honour World Refugee Day 2021, which is the culmination of Refugee Week UK, we at Hundred Heroines are featuring 7 women photographers who embody this year’s theme of the power of inclusion.
German photographer Anne Fischer (1914 – 1986) left Germany in 1937 to become a fine portrait photographer and to specialise in dance photography.
Elisabeth Meyer (1899 – 1968) was an early Norwegian photojournalist of the 1920s and 30s who documented her daring trips to Iran and India, as well as the local Sami people of Finnmark in her native Norway.
In the history of the Oscars only 5 women are ever to be nominated for Best Director, so Paula Vellet asks where are the women