Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light

Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light presents the work and lives of over 80 women whose contributions to photography have been historically underacknowledged. Featuring a carefully curated selection of images, essays and poetry, this volume is a rich collective portrait of artists whose vision and influence shaped the medium in profound ways. With images by: Berenice Abbott, Karimeh Abbud, Laure Albin Guillot, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Gertrud Arndt, Ellen Auerbach, Lillian Bassman, Hilla Becher, Ruth Bernhard, Ilse Bing, Katt Both, Margaret Bourke-White, Anne Brigman, Claude Cahun, Lizzie Caswall Smith, Marjory Collins, Olive Cotton, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Maggie Diaz, Nora Dumas, Mikki Ferrill, Trude Fleischmann, Sue Ford, Virginia Fraser, Gisèle Freund, Heather George, Viva Gibb, Christine Godden, Fiona Hall, Ponch Hawkes, Annemarie Heinrich, Florence Henri, Kitty Hoffmann, Ruth Hollick, Kati Horna, Dorothy Izard, Lotte Jacobi, Carol Jerrems, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Joan Jonas, Consuelo Kanaga, Gertrude Käsebier, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Melanie Le Guay, Helen Levitt, Grace Lock, Inez McPhee, Dora Maar, Madame d’Ora, Bea Maddock, Marion Marrison, Lee Miller, Alice Mills, Jacqueline Mitelman, Lisette Model, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Marcel Moore, May Moore, Mina Moore, Barbara Morgan, Hedda Morrison, Ann Newmarch, Ruth Orkin, Marion Post Wolcott, Leonie Reisberg, Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, Isabel Seymour, Peggy Silinsky, Eve Sonneman, Varvara Stepanova, Grete Stern, Elsa Thiemann, Tokiwa Toyoko, Ingeborg Tyssen, Edna Walling, Francesca Woodman, Yamawaki Michiko, Yamazawa Eiko