Possibly the South Kensington Museum’s (V & A) first female Official Museum Photographer.
Becky Handley12th January 2021
German photographer Ruth Bernhard studied at the Berlin Academy of Art. In 1927, she relocated to New York to begin a career in commercial photography.
Becky Handley20th December 2020
Imogen Cunningham, The Unmade Bed, 1957, © Imogen Cunningham Trust www.imogencunningham.com Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) American photographer One of the first professional female photographers in the US and the most experimental and independent, Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon. She was inspired to become a photographer by the great portraitist Gertrude Kasebier…
Becky Handley5th December 2020
Best known for photographing the changing face of New York in the 1930s.
Becky Handley22nd November 2020
Eugenie Goldstern Eugenie Goldstern (1884-1942) Austrian ethnographic photographer and anthropologist Eugenie Goldstern was born into a large Jewish family in Odessa, but moved to Austria in 1905 where she began studying anthropology at the University of Vienna in 1910. She created the first ever monograph of a community when she spent a…
Becky Handley13th November 2020
A snapshot of some of the early women photographers in South Africa
Del Barrett5th September 2020
Norah documented the early years of British suffrage and the ground-breaking work of socialist Sylvia Pankhurst in London’s East End.
Becky Handley27th August 2020
Constance Stuart Larrabee was remarkable on many levels, from owning her own photography studio to photographing from war zones
Gabby Kynoch15th February 2020
