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.
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.
Hansel Mieth
German-American photographer
Louise Rosskam
One of the elusive pioneers of what has been called the golden age of documentary photography.
Katherine Young
Photographer Katherine Young exhibited extensively, taught others to make photographs, published her work in newspapers, and operated a photo news service.
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.”
Brenda Ann Kenneally
American photojournalist
Dorothy Lawrence
During the First World War, Lawrence disguised herself as a man, and using the alias Denis Smith, joined the British Army.
Emme Gerhard
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.