Beverly Buchanan
Beverly Buchanan found her calling as an artist after pursuing a career in health education and realizing that she wanted to express the images, stories, and architecture of her African American childhood.
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Helen M Stummer
Photographer who has been documenting Newark’s Central Ward for many years.
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
1800s British archaeologist
Alice Austen
Alice Austen was a photographer who documented the lively activities of her queer female social circle at the turn of the century in New York City.
Marilyn Bridges
American pilot and photographer who has taken aerial photographs in countries all around the world.
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild (1914-2008) worked at the Harvard Observatory from approximately 1935 to 1938.
Graciela Iturbide
She photographs Mexican society and culture. Between 1979 and 1988, she photographed a matriarchal society in Juchitán de Zaragoza, an indigenous town in southeast Oaxaca. She also photographed Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles.
Sarah Choate Sears
American artist and art collector
Susan Charter
Susan Charter (ca.1823-1875) was the first woman to open a photography studio in Boston.
Chansonetta Stanley Emmons
Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) was a photographer born in Maine. She later lived in Dorchester, photographing her home on Harley Street and exhibiting widely.