Paula Vellet Archives

Highlights from Photo London

Whether or not you were able to attend in person, our series of Photo London 2022 highlights provide a whistle-stop tour of the Historical and Contemporary Heroines’ contributions, covering remarkable works from throughout the medium’s history.

PlanetHeroines1st June 2022

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6 Women who photographed post-war America for LIFE Magazine

LIFE Magazine offered women photographers the opportunity to take control of their careers with sustainable wages and assignments documenting America after World War 2.

Gabby Kynoch21st March 2022

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Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), American photojournalist, war correspondent and Fortune and LIFE magazine photographer who covered events from the Great Depression, through WW2 to the Cold War

Gabby Kynoch20th March 2022

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Martha Holmes

Martha Holmes (1923-2006) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering women photographers of the 1940s and 1950s.

Gabby Kynoch11th March 2022

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Marie Hansen

Marie Hansen (1918 – 1969) was one of LIFE Magazine’s pioneering female photographers of the 1940s and 1950s.

Gabby Kynoch11th March 2022

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10 of my favourite female Bauhaus-trained photographers

Explore 10 female photographers who studied at the Bauhaus’s campuses in Dessau and Weimar, before the schools were closed at the onset of the Second World War

Gabby Kynoch8th March 2022

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Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt (1893-1983) was a celebrated Bauhaus-trained industrial designer, photographer and pioneer of Modernist photomontage. She experimented with the array of imagery available in the new illustrated press to challenge gender roles and preconceptions.

Gabby Kynoch1st March 2022

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Gertrud Arndt

Gertrud Arndt (1903 – 2000) was a German photographer and weaver trained at the Bauhaus between 1923 and 1927. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits ‘The Mask Portraits’ from around 1930.

Gabby Kynoch1st March 2022

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Volunteer Diaries: Paula Vellet

Volunteer writer Paula Vellet discusses donating her words and time to Hundred Heroines and which piece she found the most interesting to research

Gabby Kynoch25th February 2022

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Hou Bo

Chinese photojournalist Hou Bo (1924 – 2017) documented the rise of Mao Zedong from 1939 to 1968 in over 400 photographs as the official photographer of The Great Leader. She created most of the iconic images of Mao’s reign but fell from favour during the Cultural Revolution and spent years in forced…

Gabby Kynoch31st January 2022