This is a timeline of

women in photography The participation of women in photography goes back to the very origins of the process. Several of the earliest women photographers, most of whom were from Britain or France, were married to male pioneers or had close relationships with their fa ...

tracing the major contributions women have made to both the development of photography and the outstanding photographs they have created over the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

Early 19th-century pioneers

1839

* Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866) produces what is possibly the earliest surviving photographic image taken by a woman. *

Constance Fox Talbot Constance Talbot (née Mundy, 30 January 1811 – 9 September 1880) was an English artist credited as the first woman ever to take a photograph – a hazy image of a short verse by the Irish poet Thomas Moore. Constance, who came from Markeato ...

(1811–1880), wife of the inventor

Henry Fox Talbot William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS (; 11 February 180017 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later ...

, experiments with the process of photography, possibly becoming the first woman to take a photograph.

1842

Franziska Möllinger Louise Franziska Möllinger (1817–1880) was a pioneering German-born Swiss photographer who worked with daguerreotypes in the early 1840s. She is thought to be the first female photographer who was active in Switzerland. Möllinger was also the ...

(1817–1880) becomes the first female photographer in Switzerland, taking

daguerreotype Daguerreotype (; french: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre an ...

s of Swiss scenes which she publishes as lithographs in 1844.

1843

* Anna Atkins (1799–1871), also a friend of Henry Fox Talbot, publishes ''Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions'', the first book with photographic illustrations. *

Bertha Beckmann Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (25 January 1815 – 6 December 1901) was a German photographer. She appears to have been Germany's first professional female photographer, and was possibly also the first professional female photographer in the world, bein ...

(1815–1901), opens a studio with her husband in Leipzig, running the business herself from his death in 1847.

1844

* Jessie Mann (1805–1867) takes a photograph of the King of Saxony, probably becoming the first woman photographer in Scotland.

1845

* Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) makes daguerreotypes in her photographic studio in

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants ...

, moving her studio to

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in 1857.

1847

Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri (née Francart, c. 1817 – 1878) was an early French photographer. In 1843, she married the pioneering photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, partnering with him in their Brest daguerrotype studio from the la ...

(c.1817–1878) assists her husband André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in their Brest studio, later operating the business alone.

1848

Sarah Louise Judd Sarah Louise Judd (June 26, 1802 – October 11, 1881) was the first commercial photographer in Minnesota. She also established the first schools in the area of Stillwater, Minnesota. Biography Born in Farmington, Connecticut on June 26, 1 ...

(1802–c.1881) makes daguerreotypes in spring 1848, continuing for two years in Stillwater, Minnesota.

1849

* Elise L'Heureux (1827–1896), together with her husband, sets up a daguerreotype studio in Quebec City, taking over the business in 1865. File:Quillan Leaf.jpg, Sarah Anne Bright's Quillan Leaf (1839) File:Anna Atkins algae cyanotype.jpg, Anna Atkins' photogram of Algae (1843) File:Möllinger Schloss Thun 750.jpg, Franziska Möllinger's daguerreotype of Thun Castle (c.1844) File:Genevieve Elisabeth Disderi Interior of St. Mathieu.jpg, Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri's Interior of St Mathieu (1869)

Later 19th century

1850

Julia Shannon Julia Shannon (c. 1812 – c. 1852) was an American photographer who worked in San Francisco in the 1850s. She was the first known woman photographer in California and probably the only woman working in her profession at the time in San Francisco. ...

(c. 1812 – c. 1852), the first known woman photographer in California, advertises her work with daguerreotypes in 1850. * Thora Hallager (1821–1884) begins making daguerreotypes in Copenhagen, opening her own studio around 1857.

1852

Emilie Bieber Emilie Bieber (1810–1884) was a German photographer who opened a studio in Hamburg as early as 1852.Hamburg. *

Marie Kinnberg Marie Kinnberg (1806–30 March 1858) was a pioneering Swedish photographer and painter. In 1851, she learnt how to operate the daguerreotype process and the following year opened a studio in Gothenburg. Active as a portrait painter, Marie Kinnber ...

opens a daguerreotype studio in

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

1853

Mary Dillwyn Mary Dillwyn (1816–1906) is considered to be the earliest female photographer in Wales, who took photographs of flowers, animals, family and friends in the 1840s and 1850s. She provided a raw insight to the domestic lives of women and childr ...

(1816–1906) took the first known photograph of a snowman, circa 1853.

1854

Caroline Emily Nevill Lady Caroline Emily Nevill (31 May 1829 – 23 February 1887) was an early English photographer. Personal life Caroline Emily Nevill was the eldest daughter of William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, and his wife, Caroline Leeke. Her older br ...

(1829–1887) and her sisters Henrietta (1830–1912) and Isabel (1831–1915) exhibit at the London Photographic Society.

1855

* Madame Vaudé-Green opened a photography studio in Paris, called ''Photographie catholique'', specialising in photographs of religious painting.

1856

* Virginia Oldoini (1837–1899) began taking photographs, mainly of herself in theatrical costumes. * Julia Ann Rudolph (also known as Julia Ann Swift and Julia Ann Raymond; c. 1820–1890) sets up her own photography studio in Nevada City, California.

1857

Lady Clementina Hawarden Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden (née Elphinstone Fleeming; 1 June 1822 – 19 January 1865), commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, was a British amateur portrait photographer of the Victorian Era. She produced over 800 photographs ...

(1822–1865) begins photographing in Ireland, later setting up her own private studio in London where she produced some 800

albumen print The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was published in January 1847 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative. It us ...

1863

* Emma Kirchner (1830 – 1909) sets up as the first woman photographer in her studio in

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, Netherlands.

1864

* Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) begins taking photographs, becoming famous for her portraits of celebrities. *

Louise Thomsen Marie Louise Thomsen née Molbech (1823–1907) was a pioneering Danish photographer who ran a photographic business in Hellebæk in the north of Zealand from the early 1860s. Many of the photographs she took in the area near her home have been p ...

(1823–1907) establishes a business in Hellebæk near Helsingør.

1867

Elizabeth Pulman Elizabeth Pulman née Chadd (1 August 1836 – 3 February 1900) was a British-born New Zealand photographer. She was regarded as being the country's first female professional photographer. Biography Pulman was born in Lymm, Cheshire, England in ...

(1836–1900) assists her husband in his Auckland studio, taking over the business on his death in 1871.

1869

*Thora Hallager photographs

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...

1871

Adelaide Conroy Adelaide Conroy née Anceschi (born 1839) was a Malta-based photographer active between 1871 and 1879. Adelaide was born on 23 April 1839 to Pompilio Anceschi and Rosa Bolondi in Reggio d'Emilia, Italy. Together with James Conroy his first wife S ...

was operating from 56, Strada Stretta, Valletta, Malta, until mid 1879 specialising mostly in ''

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'' and

1876

Frederikke Federspiel Frederikke Jakobine Federspiel (1839–1913) was the first female photographer to practice in Denmark. For many years, she ran her own photographic studio in Aalborg, always keeping abreast of the latest developments. Among her clients were the ...

(1839–1913) is the first woman in Denmark to obtain a licence to trade in photography.

1880s

Mollie Fly Mary Edith "Mollie" Fly (1847–1925) was a late 19th and early 20th century American photographer who co-founded and managed Fly's Photography Gallery in Tombstone, Arizona, with her husband, photographer C. S. Fly. She ran the studio solo for a ...

(1847–1925) ran a photo studio from the 1880s to the early 1910s in Tombstone, Arizona.

1881

Geraldine Moodie Geraldine Moodie (31 October 1854 – 4 October 1945) was a Canadian photographer who pioneered in capturing photos of early Canadian history. She is best known for her work with indigenous peoples in Northern Canada. Moodie is one of Canada's fi ...

(1854–1945) establishes a studio in Battleford, Saskatchewan. She was later commissioned to create photographic records of western Canada.

1888

* Mary Steen (1856–1939) becomes Denmark's first female court photographer.

1890

Sarah J. Eddy Sarah James Eddy (May 3, 1851 – March 29, 1945) was an American artist and photographer who specialized in the platinotype process, also known as platinum prints. She was active in abolition, reform, and suffragist movements, and was a philant ...

(1851–1945) begins exhibiting photographs. Her most important exhibitions were at the New School of American Photography and the selection of American Women photographers at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900.

1894

* Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) becomes the first woman to open a studio in Washington, D.C.

1895

Julie Laurberg Julie Rasmine Marie Laurberg (7 September 1856 – 29 June 1925) was an early Danish photographer who, together with Franziska Gad (1873–1921), ran a successful photography business in central Copenhagen. Early life and education Born in Grenå, ...

(1856–1925) opens a large successful photography business in Copenhagen's

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where she employed many women. Supported women's professional participation in photography.

1896

Harriett Brims Harriet Pettifore Brims (1864-1939) was a pioneer female commercial photographer in Queensland, Australia. She opened a photographic studio in Ingham, Queensland before moving to Mareeba in 1904, where she established a new studio until she moved ...

(1864–1939) opens a studio in Ingham, Queensland, working as a professional photographer for 16 years.

1899

Laura Adams Armer Laura Adams Armer (January 12, 1874 – March 16, 1963) was an American artist and writer. In 1932, her novel ''Waterless Mountain'' won the Newbery Medal. She was also an early photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. An online facsim ...

becomes active as a photographer in San Francisco photographing

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and other areas of interest. File:Clementina Hawarden, Clementina Maude.jpg, Viscountess Hawarden's daughter Clementina Maude (1863) File:Annie my first success, by Julia Margaret Cameron (restored).jpg, Julia Margaret Cameron's portrait of her daughter Annie (1864) File:HCA by Thora Hallager 1869.jpg, Thora Hallager's portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1869) File:Quatuor-florentin.jpg, Emilie Bieber's Quatuor Florentin (c.1875) File:RewiManiapoto1879.jpg, Elizabeth Pulman's portrait of Rewi Manga Maniapoto (1879) File:-Countess de Castiglione- MET DP205246.jpg, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione self portrait (1895) File:Mary Steen Victoria Beatrice Windsor 1895.jpg, Mary Steen's photograph of Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice (1895)

Early 20th century

1900

Gertrude Käsebier Gertrude Käsebier (née Stanton; May 18, 1852 – October 12, 1934) was an American photographer. She was known for her images of motherhood, her portraits of Native Americans, and her promotion of photography as a career for women. Biography ...

(1852–1934) sold prints of her 1899 photograph "The Manger" (a portrait of fellow photographer

Frances W. Delehanty Frances Washington Delehanty (January 31, 1879 — January 8, 1977) was an American artist and illustrator, and a noted designer of bookplates, posters, and toy theatres. Later in life she helped to establish the Abbey of Regina Laudis on her pro ...

) for $100, "the highest price ever paid for a photograph" to that time.

1901

*''

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'' featured a series of articles, "The Foremost Women Photographers in America", edited by Frances Benjamin Johnston and including Gertrude Käsebier (May),

Mathilde Weil Mathilde Weil (January 1872 — June 1942) was an American editor, literary agent, and portrait photographer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Early life Mathilde Weil was from Philadelphia, the daughter of Edward Henry Weil and Isabel R. Lyo ...

(June), The Allen Sisters (July), Emma J. Farnsworth (August), Eva Watson-Schütze (October),

Zaida Ben-Yusuf Zaida Ben-Yusuf (21 November 1869 – 27 September 1933) was an English-born, New York–based portrait photographer noted for her artistic portraits of wealthy, fashionable, and famous Americans during the turn of the 19th–20th century. In 1 ...

(November), and Elizabeth Brownell (January 1902).

1903

* Sarah Acland is taking colour photos whilst on holiday in Gibraltar. * Christina Broom (1862–1939) starts selling photographs as postcards, later becoming the first female press photographer.

1906

* Signe Brander (1869–1942) is charged by the

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to document photographically the changing face of the city.

1907

Dora Kallmus Dora Philippine Kallmus (20 March 1881 – 28 October 1963), also known as Madame D'Ora or Madame d'Ora, was an Austrian fashion and portrait photographer. Early life Dora Philippine Kallmus was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1881 to a Jewish fami ...

(1881–1963) establishes a fashion studio in Vienna, later creating portraits of celebrities.

1909

*The Women's Federation of the Photographers Association of America holds its organizational meeting in Rochester, New York, with

Mary Carnell Mary Carnell (December 21, 1861 — October 10, 1925) also seen as Mary Carnell MacEuen, was an American photographer and clubwoman based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was founder and first president of the Women's Federation of the Photograph ...

as its first president.

1913

Margaret Watkins Margaret Watkins (1884–1969) was a Canadian photographer who is remembered for her innovative contributions to advertising photography.

(1884–1969) works as an assistant in a Boston studio, opening her own business in New York City in 1920.

1915

* Katherine Russell Bleecker (1893–1996) makes three films about prison reform this year, using her own cameras. She is sometimes credited as the first professional camerawoman in American film.

1916

Trude Fleischmann Trude Fleischmann (22 December 1895 – 21 January 1990) was an Austrian-born American photographer. After becoming a notable society photographer in Vienna in the 1920s, she re-established her business in New York in 1940. Early life Born in Vi ...

(1895–1990) embarks on her career as a professional photographer, creating outstanding portraits of intellectuals and artists.

1917

Naciye Suman Naciye Suman (23 April 1881 – 23 July 1973), known through her career as Madame Naciye or Naciye Hanım, was the first Turkish Muslim professional woman photographer. When Turkish titles were abolished in favor of fixed hereditary surnames, sh ...

(1881–1973) creates a studio in Istanbul, becoming Turkey's first female photographer.

1920s

Marie al-Khazen Marie al-Khazen (1899–1983) was a Lebanese photographer. The photographs she created of rural life in 1920s Lebanon are considered to constitute a valuable and unique record of their time and place. Early life Marie al-Khazen grew up in a mansi ...

(1899–1983) was a Lebanese photographer active in the 1920s; the photographs she created are considered to constitute a valuable and unique record of their time and place.Yasmine Nachabe
"An Alternative Representation of Femininity in 1920s Lebanon: Through the Mise-en-Abîme of a Masculine Space"
''New Middle Eastern Studies'' 1(2011). *

Elise Forrest Harleston Elise Forrest Harleston (February 8, 1891- 1970) is known as South Carolina’s first female African-American photographer. She was also one of the first Black female photographers in the United States. Elise Beatrice Forrest was born in Charles ...

(February 8, 1891 – 1970) was an early African-American photographer who set up a studio in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1922 that lasted into the early 1930s. *

Ruth Matilda Anderson Ruth Matilda Anderson (September 8, 1893 – May 20, 1983) was an American photographer and author, known for her ethnographic photographs and studies of mainly rural life in early 20th-century Spain. During her extended field trips to regions ...

(1893 – 1983), a graduate of the Clarence H. White School of Photography, starts taking more than 14.000 documentary photographs of rural life in early 20th-century Spain for the Hispanic Society of America. Her work has found appreciation after her death in exhibitions and catalogs.

1925

Ruth Harriet Louise Ruth Harriet Louise (born Ruth Goldstein; January 13, 1903 – October 12, 1940) was an American photographer. She was the first woman photographer active in Hollywood, and she ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. Early ...

(1903–1940) is hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to run their portrait studio, becoming the first female photographer to be active in

Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (disambiguation) * Hollywood, ...

1928

* Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) opens a studio in

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, becoming a photojournalist in 1929.

1932

* Ylla (1911–1955) begins photographing animals, later becoming recognized as the world's most proficient animal photographer.

1936

Ilse Bing Ilse Bing (23 March 1899 – 10 March 1998) was a German avant-garde and commercial photographer who produced pioneering monochrome images during the inter-war era. Biography Background and early life Bing was born to a wealthy Jewish famil ...

(1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. *

Gerda Taro Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German Jewish war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the ...

(1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War, becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline.

1939

* Homai Vyarawalla begins contributing to '' The Illustrated Weekly of India'', developing a career as India's first female press photographer. *

Berenice Abbott Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and ...

publishes her work of bird's eye and

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photographs of New York City in ''Changing New York''.

1940s

Tsuneko Sasamoto was Japan's first female photojournalist. Early life Sasamoto was born in Tokyo, Japan. She went to a college of home economics, but quit because of her ambition to become a painter. After dropping out, she attended an institute of painting w ...

(1914–2022) joined the Japanese Photographic Society in 1940, becoming Japan's first female photojournalist. *

Carlotta Corpron Carlotta Corpron (December 9, 1901 – April 17, 1988) was an American photographer known for her abstract compositions featuring light and reflections, made mostly during the 1940s and 1950s. She is considered a pioneer of American abstract photo ...

(December 9, 1901 – April 17, 1988) begins making the "light drawings" that establish her as a pioneer of American abstract photography.

1941

* Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) becomes the first female war correspondent. * Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) is awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

1945

Marion Carpenter Marion A. Carpenter (March 6, 1920 – October 29, 2002), was the first woman national press photographer to cover Washington, D.C. and the White House, and to travel with a US President. She broke the gender role stereotype in 1951, Carpen ...

(1920–2002) becomes a White House photographer, frequently travelling with

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Late 20th century

1950

*Thousands of striking 19th-century photographs made by Staten Island photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952) are rediscovered and published.

1954

Virginia Schau Virginia Margaret (Brown) Schau (February 23, 1915 – May 28, 1989) was an American who was the first woman and second amateur to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which she was awarded in 1954. The award-winning photograph was taken in ...

(1915–1989) becomes the first woman to win the

Pulitzer Prize for Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Photography was one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It was inaugurated in 1942 and replaced by two photojournalism prizes in 1968: the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and "Pulitzer Pri ...

1962

Agnès Varda Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film ...

(1928–2019) releases her French New Wave film '' Cléo from 5 to 7''.

1967

*Polish-born Rose Mandel (1910–2002), senior photographer in the art department at the University of California, is awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

1972

*Belgian-born

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(1939–2013), photographic assistant to

Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advoca ...

from 1963 to 1972, is awarded a

. *

Lorraine Monk Lorraine Althea Constance Monk D.Litt. (née Spurrell; May 26, 1922 – December 17, 2020) was a Canadian photographer and executive producer with the National Film Board of Canada who led the production of multiple photography projects ch ...

(1922–2020) is honoured as an Officer of the Order of Canada for her contributions to photography.

1973

Sara Facio Sara Facio (born 18 April 1932) is an Argentine photographer. She is best known for having photographed, along with Alicia D'Amico, various cultural personalities, including Argentine writers Julio Cortázar, María Elena Walsh and Alejandr ...

and

María Cristina Orive María Cristina Orive (1930/1931 – 2 September 2017) was a Guatemalan photographer who has worked as a photojournalist. Together with Sara Facio, she founded the Buenos Aires publishing house La Azotea which specializes in publishing the work of L ...

co-found La Azotea, the first publishing house in Latin America dedicated to photography.

1974

Letizia Battaglia Letizia Battaglia (; 5 March 1935 – 13 April 2022) was an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia. A documentary film based on her lif ...

begins her career photographing the

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1978

Graciela Iturbide Graciela Iturbide (born May 16, 1942) is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum. Biograp ...

(born 1942) becomes one of the founding members of the Mexican Council of Photography.

1979

Alicia D'Amico Alicia D’Amico (October 6, 1933 – August 30, 2001) was an Argentine photographer. She was born in Buenos Aires, where her family had a photographic business. She ran a very productive studio with Sara Facio for twenty years. She published pho ...

, Annemarie Heinrich, and Maria Cristina Orive are all part of the group of original founders of the Consejo Argentino de Fotografía.

1980

Jane Evelyn Atwood Jane Evelyn Atwood (born 1947) is an American photographer, who has been living in Paris since 1971. Working primarily with documentary photography, Atwood typically follows groups of people or individuals, focusing mostly on people who are on t ...

receives the first

W. Eugene Smith William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978) was an American photojournalist.Peacock, Scot. "W(illiam) Eugene Smith." ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2003. ''Biography In Context'' He has been described as "perhaps the si ...

Grant for humanistic photography for her project on the lives of blind children.

1991

* Annie Leibovitz becomes the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery.

21st century

2005

Anja Niedringhaus Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 – 4 April 2014) was a German photojournalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP). She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography f ...

(1965–2014) wins the

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for her coverage of the Iraq War. *''

Bearing Witness ''Bearing Witness'' is a 2005 documentary by Barbara Kopple and Marijana Wotton. Synopsis It follows five women reporters and the challenges they face as they work in Iraq during the Second Gulf War. Molly Bingham is an experienced photographe ...

'', a documentary for American television, follows five women war journalists working in Iraq, including photographer

Molly Bingham Mary C. "Molly" Bingham is an American journalist and filmmaker. Early life Molly Bingham grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and went to Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, before getting her BA in 1990 at Harvard College in Medieval ...

and camerawoman Mary Rogers.

2010

Raymonde April Raymonde April (born 23 June 1953) is a Canadian contemporary artist, photographer and academic. April lives in Montreal where she teaches photography at Concordia University. Her work has been shown regularly in museums and galleries in Canada ...

(born 1953) is awarded the Order of Canada for her contribution to photography.

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