Women Photographers

[Pieter12]

P.S. List of women photographers that are completely uninspired:
Nan Goldin
Sally Mann
Sherrie Levine
Cindy Sherman
Sarah Moon

Your opinion.

 

[nikos79]

Your opinion.

Of course

 

[benjiboy]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Inga Morath she was the first female Magnum photographer she was born in Austria and later became an American citizen, she was married to Arthur Miller for forty years after he and Marylin Munro divorced. I admire this woman a great deal and her work is really worth looking at.

 

[Sanug]

Alice Springs aka June Newton. A retrospective of her work was recently shown in Germany. Amazing!

Digital Guide Alice Springs: Schloss Moyland

moyland.de

 

[snusmumriken]

I have just discovered Marina Yampolsky and her photographs of Mexico. Wow!

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Thanks for this!

 

[nikos79]

Of course

I take it back about Sally Mann my bad

 

[nikos79]

Thanks for this!

She is amazing

 

[warden]

I take it back about Sally Mann my bad

Glad you took a closer look she’s good.

 

[Jim Christie]

A few names I'd like to add to this interesting thread:

Jane Bown (portraiture, documentary)

Hélène Binet (architecture)

Pennie Smith (rock musicians)

 

[bluechromis]

Not many people have mentioned Cindy Sherman, but she would be high on my list. There are critics who rate her as not only one of the greatest photographers, but one of the greatest artists of any kind in the modern era.

 

[bluechromis]

I wouldn't rank her in the pantheon of the best of the best, but Eudora Welty is a sleeper as an honorable mention. She is obviously better known for her writing, but she did some worthy photography for a time. She worked the same ground as the Farm Security Administration photographers in depicting the Depression-era South. But Welty was coming more from the perspective of a sympathetic insider, more of a member ot those communities, which the Farm Security folks mainly were not. https://deepsouthmag.com/2019/04/23/photographs-by-eudora-welty/

 

[nikos79]

Glad you took a closer look she’s good.

Although Debbie Caffery seems to be more innocent in her intentions of photographing her family and three kids than Sally Mann that to me seeks some "commercial" purpose

 

[Pieter12]

I wouldn't rank her in the pantheon of the best of the best, but Eudora Welty is a sleeper as an honorable mention. She is obviously better known for her writing, but she did some worthy photography for a time. She worked the same ground as the Farm Security Administration photographers in depicting the Depression-era South. But Welty was coming more from the perspective of a sympathetic insider, more of a member ot those communities, which the Farm Security folks mainly were not. https://deepsouthmag.com/2019/04/23/photographs-by-eudora-welty/

When did this become a list of the best women photographers?

 

[nikos79]

Not many people have mentioned Cindy Sherman, but she would be high on my list. There are critics who rate her as not only one of the greatest photographers, but one of the greatest artists of any kind in the modern era.

Yes I have mentioned her. But not for the same reasons

 

[Rod Klukas]

Ah, but you missed a few:

Gerda Taro(Robert Capa's partner in the Spanish Civil War.) Run over by a tank 1936
Berenice Abbott
Lisette Model
Imogen Cunningham
Lee Miller
Francis Johnston
Barbara Davidson
Victoria Sambunaris

Tina Modotti, who learned from Edward Weston, was already mentioned

Hope this helps.

Rod