An artist accomplished in several media, Emma Amos explored difficult issues concerning politics, gender, race, and cultural history in her work. Her highly expressive visual art combined printmaking, painting, and textiles with photography and collage. She was also known as a teacher, curator, writer, and activist.
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.
Photographer who has been documenting Newark’s Central Ward for many years.
1800s British archaeologist
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.
American pilot and photographer who has taken aerial photographs in countries all around the world.
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild (1914-2008) worked at the Harvard Observatory from approximately 1935 to 1938.
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.
American artist and art collector
Susan Charter (ca.1823-1875) was the first woman to open a photography studio in Boston.