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Celebrating the pioneers who fought for their place behind the lens. From early amateurs to wartime photojournalists, witness the vital and often overlooked contribution of women to the medium.

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Honor the Pioneers.

Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to women photographers
Early evidence for woman photographers
2Who was the earliest professional woman photographer?
3Female daguerreotypists
4Female ambrotypists
5Cartes de visite: Women photographers
6Cartes de visite: Backs: Women photographers
7Cabinet cards: Backs: Women photographers
Women photographers
8Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann: Portraits
9Lady Mary Georgiana Filmer: Decorated album pages
10Lady Clementina Hawarden: Photographic studies
11Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
12Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits
13Julia Margaret Cameron: Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Dirty Monk" (1865)
14Julia Margaret Cameron: Ceylon
15Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869)
16Lotten von Düben: Anthropological studies of Lapland (1868)
17Alice Austen: Street Types of New York (1896)
18Helen Edlund: Swedish folk costumes
19Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album (1899-1900)
20Sarah Ladd and Lily White: The Columbia River (1903)
21Yvette Borup Andrews: Across Mongolian plains (1921)
22Lily E. White: Landscapes
23Emma Barton: Portraits
24Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes
25Olive Edis: British women's services at the battlefields of France and Flanders (1918-1919)
26Laura Gilpin: New Mexico and Arizona
27Gertrude Käsebier: Platinum prints
28Gertrude Käsebier: Native Americans
29Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933)
30Doris Ulmann: Portraits
31Berenice Abbott: Changing New York
32Berenice Abbott: Science
33Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
34Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
35Diane Arbus: Book covers
36Lotte Jacobi: Photogenics
37Leni Riefenstahl: The creation of the myths of National Socialism
38Shadi Ghadirian: Women
39Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah
40Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills
41Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986)
42Donna Ferrato: Living with the Enemy
43Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture
44Michelle Sank: Teenagers
Women photographers using Autochromes
45Autochromes: Women photographers

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