12th December of the #HHAdvent calendar, Paula Vellet shares a book recommendation.
PlanetHeroines12th December 2023
Here are five Black women photographers, among many, who have made a lasting impact on the trajectory of photography and the visual arts.
Katherine Riley18th October 2023
Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953) was a Dutch humanist photographer best known for her street photography for the Underground Camera group during the Second World War.
PlanetHeroines28th September 2023
Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography writer and curator, and the co-founder of Aperture Magazine.
Katherine Riley17th August 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
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
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
Hundred Heroines volunteer Paula Vellet shares her thoughts on the enchanting photographic series Hyperborea by Evgenia Arbugaeva.
Katherine Riley7th December 2022
