Sophia Tolstaya
War and Peace is known for its length, at 587,287 words. Sophia Tolstaya copied and edited it seven times by hand.
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Ray Eames
While Charles Eames was the public face of their architecture and furniture design partnership, he was always quick to acknowledge his wife, Ray, as an equal, or even superior, saying “Anything I can do, Ray can do better.”
Dickey Chapelle
Photojournalist and war correspondent
Pat Larter
Pioneering ‘femail’ artist who gave men the Playboy treatment
Gerda Taro
Before Gerda Taro became the first woman photojournalist to die while covering a war on the front lines, she worked with her lover Endre Friedmann. Together they collaborated on work attributed to “Robert Capa,” an American persona intended to protect European Jewish artists from increasing political tensions on the continent in the 1930s
Sonia Boyce
Sonia Boyce became the first woman of African descent to represent the U.K. at the Venice Biennale in 2022, the year she turned 60.
Julia Henderson
Canadian journalist, novelist, mountaineer, botanist, photographer and lecturer
Christianne Morris
1800s Micmac artist and artist’s model
Jo Ractliffe
South African documentary photographer who captures the traces of violence, displacement and struggle in a landscape.
Jane Alexander
South African artist