Hansel Mieth
German-American photographer
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Louise Rosskam
One of the elusive pioneers of what has been called the golden age of documentary photography.
Katherine Young
Photographer Katherine Young exhibited extensively, taught others to make photographs, published her work in newspapers, and operated a photo news service.
Helen Johns Kirtland
Helen Johns Kirtland was an early woman war photojournalist active at the end of World War I. She was the “the first and only woman correspondent allowed at the front after Caporetto, the 1917 Italian retreat in which 275,000 troops were captured.”
Dorothy Lawrence
During the First World War, Lawrence disguised herself as a man, and using the alias Denis Smith, joined the British Army.
Emme Gerhard
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.
Mayme Gerhard
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.
Jessie Tarbox Beals
America’s first female news photographer; The Buffalo Inquirer and The Courier hired her as a staff photographer in 1902.
Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Ben-Yúsuf was one of the “New Women” who joined the paid labor force in the 1890s. She was in the vanguard of women who became professional photographers as magazines reached massive circulation figures, and photographs supplanted drawn illustration art.
Alice Rohe
Alice Rohe became a newspaper writer in the 1890s and joined Theta Sigma Phi, the first American journalism professional society for women, when it was established in 1909.