‘I have no greater artistic pretentions, but if something in my photography turns out to be useful, it will be that it is a chronic of my country, of my time, of my people.. things about Mexico that you won’t see anymore’ – Lola Álvarez Bravo Lola Álvarez Bravo was the first Mexican female photographer and a key figure…
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Doris Ulmann
Doris Ulmann, was an American photographer known for her portraits of people living in rural parts of the American South.Born into a New York family, Ulmann received a progressive education at the Ethical Culture School and took courses in psychology and law at Columbia University. She studied photography with Clarence H. White, first at Columbia in 1907 and later at the Clarence H. White…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Gertrude Käsebier
Gertrude Käsebier was considered to be one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century. She was known for her images of motherhood, her portraits of Native Americans, and her promotion of photography as a career for women. Originally named Gertrude Stanton, born in 1852, the portrait photographer who was one of the founders…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Ruth Bernhard
Ruth Bernhard ) was a German-born American photographer. In 1927, after two years at the Berlin Academy of Art, Ruth moved to New York where she began to seriously pursue a career in photography. Eight years later she met Edward Weston in California and was deeply moved by his work. He revealed to her the…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration -Jessie
Jessie Tarbox Beals was an American photographer and the first published female photojournalist in the United States. She is best known for her freelance news photographs, particularly of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich Village. She was the first female staff photographer hired by The Buffalo Inquirer…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Emma Justine Farnsworth
Since March is women’s month, I thought that I would share some of my favourite female inspiration throughout this month. I decided to do because my life has been greatly influenced by great women. Women ahead of their time, women whose faith and belief in people is beyond everything else I’ve known in my…
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