Timeline of women in photography

This is a timeline of women in photography 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.

Clementina Maude and Isabella taken by their mother Lady Clementina Hawarden c.1861

Early 19th-century pioneers

1839
  • Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866) produces what is possibly the earliest surviving photographic image taken by a women.[1]
  • Constance Fox Talbot (1811–1880), wife of the inventor Henry Fox Talbot, experiments with the process of photography, possibly becoming the first woman to take a photograph.[2]

1842

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.[4]
  • Bertha Beckmann (1815–1901), opens a studio in Leipzig, running the business herself from his death in 1847.[5]

1844
  • Jessie Mann (1805–1867) takes a photograph of the King of Saxony, probably becoming the first woman photographer in Scotland.[6]

1845

1847

1848

1849
  • Sarah Anne Bright's Quillan Leaf (1839)
  • Anna Atkins' photogram of Algae (1843)
  • Franziska Möllinger's daguerreotype of Thun Castle (c.1844)
  • Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri's Interior of St Mathieu (1869)

Later 19th-century

1850
  • Julia Shannon (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.[11]

1852

1854

1856
  • Virginia Oldoini (1837–1899) began taking photographs, mainly of herself in theatrical costumes.[15]
  • 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 (1822–1865) begins photographing in Ireland, later setting up her own private studio in London where she produced some 800 albumen prints.[16]

1864

1867

1869

1871

1876

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

1881

1888
  • Mary Steen (1856–1939)) becomes Denmark's first female court photographer.[23]

1890

1894

1895
  • Julie Laurberg (1856–1925) opens a large successful photography business in Copenhagen's Magasin du Nord where she employed many women. Supported women's professional participation in photography.[26]

1896

1899
  • Viscountess Hawarden's daughter Clementina Maude (1863)
  • Julia Margaret Camerons portrait of her daughter Annie (1864)
  • Thora Hallager's portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1869)
  • Emilie Bieber's Quatuor Florentin (c.1875)
  • Elizabeth Pulman's portrait of Rewi Manga Maniapoto (1879)
  • Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione self portrait (1895)
  • Mary Steen's photograph of Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice (1895)

Early 20th century

1900
  • Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934) sold prints of her 1899 photograph "The Manger" (a portrait of fellow photographer Frances W. Delehanty) for $100, "the highest price ever paid for a photograph" to that time.[29]

1901

1903
Col. Willoughby Verner, 1903 photograph by Acland.
  • Sarah Acland is taking colour photos whilst on holiday in Gibraltar.[31]
  • Christina Broom (1862–1939) starts selling photographs as postcards, later becoming the first female press photographer.[32]

1906

1907
  • Dora Kallmus (1881–1963) establishes a fashion studio in Vienna, later creating portraits of celebrities.[34]

1909

1913

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.[37]

1916
  • Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990) embarks on her career as a professional photographer, creating outstanding portraits of intellectuals and artists.[38]

1917

1920s
  • Marie al-Khazen (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.[40]
  • Elise Forrest Harleston (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.

1925

1928

1932
  • Ylla (1911–1955) begins photographing animals, later becoming recognized as the world's most proficient animal photographer.[43][44]

1936

1939

1940s
  • Tsuneko Sasamoto (born 1914) joins the Japanese Photographic Society in 1940, becoming Japan's first woman photojournalist.[49]
  • Carlotta Corpron (December 9, 1901 – April 17, 1988) begins making the "light drawings" that establish her as a pioneer of American abstract photography.

1941

1945

Late 20th century

1950
  • Thousands of striking 19th-century photographs made by Staten Island photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952) were rediscovered and published.[52]

1954

1962

1967

1972

1973

1974

1978
  • Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) becomes one of the founding members of the Mexican Council of Photography.[60]

1979

1980

1991

21st century

2005

2010

See also

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