Tag: Women Photographers

• A New Woman: Fanny Benjamin Johnston

  “While Johnston was running her studio in Washington, feminist campaigns to secure the vote and other rights were encouraging women to break out of their domestic roles. In 1897, she published an article in the Ladies’ Home Journal urging women to consider photography as a means of supporting themselves. “To an energetic, ambitious woman with…

  Adrienne Morris

  January 3, 2014

  Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past

  Books, Creativity, Feminism, Gender Roles in 19th century America, Life, Photography, The New Woman, women, Women Photographers, Women’s Careers

• Battle of the British Photography Babes

  In this corner the ugly duckling of her family with the nickname “Talent.” Julia Cameron was given her first camera in her 40’s. The rest is history. “I longed to arrest all the beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied.” Julia Cameron For more info about this talented artist:…

  Adrienne Morris

  December 23, 2013

  Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, inspirational

  19th Century Photography, Art, blogging, British Babes, History of Photography, Links, Photographers, Photography, Women Photographers