Table of Contents

Introduction by Clara Bouveresse • The Photographers: ABBOTT, Berenice • ALBIN, Guillot Laure • ARNDT, Gertrud • ASTFALCK-VIETZ, Marta • ATKINS, Anna • AUERBACH, Ellen • AUSTEN, Alice • BEESE, Lotte • BEN-YÚSUF, Zaïda • BENJAMIN JOHNSTON, Frances • BESNYÖ, Eva • BIERMANN, Aenne • BOUGHTON, Alice • BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret • BRANDT, Marianne • BRESLAUER, Marianne • BRIGMAN, Anne • CAHUN, Claude • CAMERON, Julia Margaret • CASTIGLIONE, Virginia de • CONTENT, Marjorie • CUNNINGHAM, Imogen • DIEZ-DÜHRKOOP, Minya • DILLWYN, Mary • EDIS, Olive • FEHR, Gertude • FLEISCHMANN, Trude • GILPIN, Laura • GRSCHEBINA, Liselotte • HANSCOM, Adelaide • HAWARDEN, Lady Clementina • HENRI, Florence • JACOBI, Lotte • JOHNSON, Belle • KALLIN-FISCHER, Grit • KALLMUS, Dora (Madame d’Ora) • KÁLMÁN, KATA • KÄSEBIER, Gertrude • KRETSCHMER, Anneliese • KRULL, Germaine • LANDAU, Ergy • LANGE, Dorothea • LEX-NERLINGER, Alice • MAAR, Dora • MADAME Yevonde • MATHER, Margrethe • MAYNARD, Hannah • MODOTTI, Tina • MOHOLY, Lucia • MYERS, Eveleen • NOSKOWIAK, Sonya • RICHARDS, Wynn • ROGI, André (Rosa KLEIN) • RUDOLPH, Charlotte • SIPPRELL, Clara E. • SPOLARICH, Olga • TARBOX BEALS, Jessie • TUDOR-HART, Edith • WELTY, Eudora • WULZ, Wanda • YVA (NEULÄNDER-SIMON, Else Ernestine)

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A compact survey of pioneering women photographers at the dawn of the medium

About the Author

Clara Bouveresse is a lecturer at Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne and a photography specialist and curator. She co-organized the exhibition 'Magnum Manifesto' at the International Center of Photography, New York, in 2017, and edited the accompanying book, which was published by Thames & Hudson.

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