{"id":9192,"date":"2019-01-17T09:32:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2019-01-16T12:33:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:33:48","slug":"notable-women-in-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9192","title":{"rendered":"Notable women in photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a couple of small reservations about the article by Australian photographer and writer Megan Kennedy, “9 Pioneering Women Who Shaped Photographic History<\/a>”\u00a0which makes an interesting contribution, particularly in introducing several photographers whose work deserves to be known more widely.<\/p>\n

The first is about the phrase “shaped photographic history<\/em>“, which I think is rather undervalued by its use here. How would photographic history have been different if it were not for the work of some of these women, interesting though it was? While it would be straightforward to make a case for some of the nine, I think it would be something of a problem for others. Of course all of us who publish or work or show it to others in some small way are a part of photographic history, but I think relatively few are pioneers who really shape it.<\/p>\n

Putting that to one side, there are I think five in the list that over the years I have written about (unfortunately mainly in articles no longer available for contractual reasons), and about whom there is considerable information both on-line and in print, and the article would have been considerably more useful had it included links to some of these. It was after all published by the Digital Photography School<\/em> which should be more encouraging to its students to dig further.<\/p>\n

Of course for most of them resources are not hard to find (though the quality of some links highly ranked by Google is often poor), but here I’ll give just one link to each of them on Wikipedia<\/em>\u00a0which seems generally a good starting point:<\/p>\n

Julia Margaret Cameron<\/a> (1815 \u2013 1879)
\nMary Steen<\/a> (1856 \u2013 1939)
\nImogen Cunningham<\/a> (1883 \u2013 1976)
\nGertrude Fehr<\/a> (1895 \u2013 1996)
\nTrude Fleischmann<\/a> (1895 \u2013 1990)
\nDorothea Lange<\/a> (1895 \u2013 1965)
\nGrete Stern<\/a> (1904 \u2013 1999)
\nYlla<\/a> (1911 \u2013 1955)
\nOlive Cotton<\/a> (1911 \u2013 2003)<\/p>\n

As a minor caveat I might perhaps question the choice of these particular nine women, when a good case could be made for so many others. But as Kennedy finishes her article:<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s impossible to cover the sheer number of women that have embodied the tenacity and creativity of a photographer\u2019s spirit in a single article. With this piece, however, I hope to have encapsulated some of the resolves of the generations of women who have shaped photographic history. And although we aren\u2019t all the way to achieving equality yet, thanks to the female photographers of the past and present, we\u2019re a lot closer than we used to be.”<\/p>\n

When I put together on line a ‘Directory of Notable Photographers<\/em>‘ around 20 years ago (and highly debatable guide to those for whom further information was then available on the web) it included the following women photographers:<\/p>\n

Abbott, Berenice
\nArbus, Diane
\nBecher, Hilla
\nBourke-White, Margaret
\nCameron, Julia Margaret
\nConnor, Linda
\nCunningham, Imogen
\nDahl-Wolfe, Louise
\nDater, Judy
\nEwald, Wendy
\nFranck, Martine
\nFreedman, Jill
\nGilpin, Laura
\nGoldin, Nan
\nGroover, Jan
\nHahn, Betty
\nHenri, Florence
\nHeyman, Abigail
\nIturbide, Graciela
\nJacobi, Lotte
\nKasebier, Gertrude
\nKruger, Barbara
\nLange, Dorothea
\nLevitt, Helen
\nLestido, Adriana
\nMann, Sally
\nMark, Mary Ellen
\nMeiselas, Susan
\nMetzner, Sheila
\nMiller, Lee
\nModel, Lisette
\nModotti, Tina
\nMoholy-Nagy, Lucia
\nOrkin, Ruth
\nParker, Olivia
\nPost Wolcott, Marion
\nRheims, Bettina
\nSherman, Cindy
\nSpence, Jo
\nStern, Grete
\nTenneson, Joyce
\nUlmann, Doris<\/p>\n

Of course there were many other women I wrote about then and since,;\u00a0 an updated list would include many more.<\/p>\n

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