‘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…
Tag: inspiring female photographers
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron née Pattle was a British photographer born in 1815 who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She was the fourth of ten children and one of seven to survive to adulthood. Her father was a British official from England in India while working for the East India Company….
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann
Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann was a German photographer born in Cottbus in 1815, Brandenburg. Wehrnert-Beckmann first worked as a hairdresser in Dresden in 1839. There, in 1840, she met her future husband, Eduard Wehnert a photographer, who introduced her to the daguerrotype process and to the recently introduced colour-tinting process based on glass-plate negatives which allowed an unlimited number of prints. In 1843,…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Francesca Woodman
“A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It’s like organising a wardrobe….” – Francesca Woodman Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer born in Denver, Colorado in 1958 best known for her black and white self portraits or female models. Many of her photographs show women, naked or clothed, blurred due to movement and…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Florence Henri
Florence Henri was a surrealist artist born in New York City 1893, to a French father and a German mother. She left the United States permanently at age two, following the death of her mother in 1895. Henri and her father began traveling for his work as a director of a petroleum company. She spent her…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Eudora Welty
“I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story – writer’s truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves…” – Eudora Welty Eudora Welty was an American photographer born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi….
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Thérèse Bonney
Thérèse Bonney was an American photographer and publicist born in Syracuse, New York, 1894. Bonney grew up in New York and California and graduated from the University of California, took a master’s degree in Romance languages at Harvard University, and, after a short time at Columbia University in New York City, completed her doctorate of…
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 – Eve Arnold
“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument” – Eve Arnold Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Eve Arnold was a photojournalist that began photographing in 1946, while working at a photo-finishing plant in New York City, and…
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