Born into a wealthy New York banking family, legendary photographer Antoinette ‘Toni’ Frissell Bacon (1907 – 1988) was introduced to photography in her twenties by her filmmaker brother Varick.
Gabby Kynoch17th November 2021
Take a tour of the first women photographers freelancing or employed for the famed publication to the leading photographers today.
Gabby Kynoch22nd September 2021
Emma Barton (1872–1938) was an English Pictorialist portrait photographer active between 1899 and the end of WW1 and at the height of her fame she was the most published female photographer of her time.
Gabby Kynoch17th September 2021
In 1949 Jane Bown (1925–2014) began working for The Observer newspaper. It was a partnership that would last over 60 years and lead to her photographing the leading political, cultural and royal figures of the day.
Gabby Kynoch17th September 2021
After studying under Trude Fleischmann in Vienna, Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990) traveled back to America to document the rural south
Gabby Kynoch24th August 2021
Mary Olive Edis (1876-1955) opened her first studio with sister in Norfolk, UK. She was one of the first women to accepted as a member of the RPS.
Gabby Kynoch24th August 2021
Trude Fleischmann (1895 – 1990) was an Austrian-born American photographer, one of a group of young, confident, Jewish, female photographers opening their own studios in Vienna after World War I.
Gabby Kynoch16th August 2021
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).
Gabby Kynoch16th August 2021
The uplifting exhibition, Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, features women photographers at IWM London, on view until January 2022.
Gabby Kynoch12th August 2021
