Katherine Young

Photographer Katherine Young exhibited extensively, taught others to make photographs, published her work in newspapers, and operated a photo news service.

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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.”

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Susan Meiselas

Photojournalist who has won awards for her intense images that are as much at home in newspapers and magazines as they are on museum walls.

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Marjory Collins

Marjory Collins began her photojournalism career in New York City in the 1930s by working for such magazines as PM and U.S. Camera.

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Ann Rosener

Since the beginning of the women’s studies movement in the 1970s, Ann Rosener’s photographs have intrigued those exploring women’s changing roles.

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Eleanor Butler Roosevelt

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.

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