After marrying Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the son of President Teddy Roosevelt, she worked both sides of the camera and kept her husband’s name in the headlines by reporting on traditionally female topics–family, patriotism, needlework, food, and fashion.
German-American photographer
One of the elusive pioneers of what has been called the golden age of documentary photography.
Photographer Katherine Young exhibited extensively, taught others to make photographs, published her work in newspapers, and operated a photo news service.
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.”
During the First World War, Lawrence disguised herself as a man, and using the alias Denis Smith, joined the British Army.
Photojournalist who worked for Look magazine from 1951 until 1971.
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.
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.
America’s first female news photographer; The Buffalo Inquirer and The Courier hired her as a staff photographer in 1902.