Doris Ulmann
American photojournalist.
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Susan Meiselas
Photojournalist who has won awards for her intense images that are as much at home in newspapers and magazines as they are on museum walls.
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.
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.
Jessie Tarbox Beals
America’s first female news photographer; The Buffalo Inquirer and The Courier hired her as a staff photographer in 1902.
Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Ben-Yúsuf was one of the “New Women” who joined the paid labor force in the 1890s. She was in the vanguard of women who became professional photographers as magazines reached massive circulation figures, and photographs supplanted drawn illustration art.
Alice Rohe
Alice Rohe became a newspaper writer in the 1890s and joined Theta Sigma Phi, the first American journalism professional society for women, when it was established in 1909.
Gertrude Käsebier
At the turn of the twentieth century, Gertrude Käsebier was one of the best known photographers in the United States.
Marion Post Wolcott
Marion Post Wolcott is best known for the more than 9,000 photographs she produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1938 to 1942.