Women Photographers

[GregY]

Laura Gilpin
Imogen Cunningham

 

[Pieter12]

I should probably just STFU at this point but your reduction of it all to greed bugs me. Can you not appreciate the concrete advantages that NYC bestows upon artists? You need to add a light or buy film: You can go to B+H or Adorama in a few minutes. Don't want to buy the light? Plenty of places rent lights. Not able to process color? Drop your chromes at Duggal. Need studio space? There are dozens of spaces for hire. Same for darkrooms. How about a model? There are hundreds, from internet amateurs to Wilhelmina pros. Camera break on set? Have an assistant run it down to Nippon Photo Clinic on Broadway. Printing in alternate media? Talas has every paper you could possibly need. And plenty of stores that sell inks and orther printing needs. Hoping to get a show? There are dozens of galleries and exhibition spaces available for new work. Wanna shoot fashion? NYC is the center of the fashion world. Wanna learn how to shoot fashion? Sign up for courses at Fashion Institute of Technology. Or sign up for classes at ICP.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. If you are serious about your craft, there are few places in the world that offer the kinds of support that NYC offers. And yeah, it's easier to monetize your work there too. But if you're there for that, you missed the point.

When I was working, there was more commercial photography work being assigned in a single building in Manhattan than in entire cities anywhere else.

 

[Pieter12]

I don't find her work uninteresting because her subjects are celebs. I find it tedious because it's self referential to a time and moment in culture, is highly repetitive, and celebrates excess for its own sake - both in the subjects and in the photography. I'll grant you she was an effective documentarian of the time, it's just not a durable work product IMO.

So is The Night Watch. The painting was commissioned by rich townspeople to show off their wealth and importance. And from your comment, I can only assume you are not familiar with all of Ms Liebovitz's body of work. Does her portrait of John and Yoko celebrate excess?

 

[chuckroast]

Does her portrait of John and Yoko celebrate excess?

Yes.

 

[Pieter12]

Yes.

And how would that be?

 

[chuckroast]

And how would that be?

As you can imagine, I have a strong opinion about this, but at this point it would be way outside the scope of this thread (or even the Photrio mission) to dig into why I feel as I do. I will only say that I am a child of that era and my views are rooted in what I watched unfold.

 

[guangong]

The woman photographer who stands out for pure courage is Latizia Battaglia. She took on and photographed members of the Sicilian mafia. She photographed many corpses of people rubbed out by the Mafia. Fantastic pictures of how the Mafia impacted peoples’ lives. Her pictures were used to send Italian the prime minister to prison.
Check out her book: Letizia Battaglia Passion, Justice, Freedom, Photographs of Sicily.

 

[benjiboy]

I admired the work of Dickey Cha
pelle who was killed in the Vietnam war, I also like Lee Miller, and Jane Bown.

 

[Rolleiflexible]

Since no one saluted my suggestion of Bunny Yeager, how about Lillian Bassman? Granted, another parochial New York photographer, but I like her.

The Mistress of the Darkroom – Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman (American, June 15, 1917–February 13, 2012) was a photographer, art director, graphic designer and painter best known for her work in fashion

artanddesigninspiration.com

Lillian Bassman

Photographer Lillian Bassman's work is featured at Jackson Fine Art - a gallery that supports fine art photography including Lillian Bassman photography.

www.jacksonfineart.com

 

[benjiboy]

Since no one saluted my suggestion of Bunny Yeager, how about Lillian Bassman? Granted, another parochial New York photographer, but I like her.

The Mistress of the Darkroom – Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman (American, June 15, 1917–February 13, 2012) was a photographer, art director, graphic designer and painter best known for her work in fashion

artanddesigninspiration.com

Lillian Bassman

Photographer Lillian Bassman's work is featured at Jackson Fine Art - a gallery that supports fine art photography including Lillian Bassman photography.

www.jacksonfineart.com

Oh yes, I forgot Lilian Bassman she was one of the ladies who's work I really admire, and she was Richard Avedon's mentor at Harper's Bazaar.

 

[Rolleiflexible]

she was Richard Avedon's mentor at Harper's Bazaar

Can you imagine what it must have been like, to be a young photographer in the Harper’s Bazaar world with Lillian Bassman, Diana Vreeland and Alexey Brodovitch?

 

[Jim Jones]

Ruth Bernhard deserves mention again for both her unusual approach for photographing the female body and for her life. In this image, published on her 90th birthday at an age when she was still giving workshops, she shares the wisdom and enthusiasm that we all should heed.

 

[CMoore]

Editta Sherman​

Editta Sherman - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Alan Johnson]

Fay Godwin by the guy who filmed her:

 

[Carnie Bob]

Can you imagine what it must have been like, to be a young photographer in the Harper’s Bazaar world with Lillian Bassman, Diana Vreeland and Alexey Brodovitch?

Did you know that Nicholas Vreeland is the Monk with a Camera. He lived in the same building as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon , I met him a decade ago , showing him work of a Danish Photographer who's work is totally recorded in Tibet.

 

[MFstooges]

Annie Leibovitz

 

[Old_Dick]

Since no one saluted my suggestion of Bunny Yeager, how about Lillian Bassman? Granted, another parochial New York photographer, but I like her.

The Mistress of the Darkroom – Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman (American, June 15, 1917–February 13, 2012) was a photographer, art director, graphic designer and painter best known for her work in fashion

artanddesigninspiration.com

Lillian Bassman

Photographer Lillian Bassman's work is featured at Jackson Fine Art - a gallery that supports fine art photography including Lillian Bassman photography.

www.jacksonfineart.com

+1 for Bunny.

 

[Rolleiflexible]

Did you know that Nicholas Vreeland is the Monk with a Camera. He lived in the same building as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon , I met him a decade ago , showing him work of a Danish Photographer who's work is totally recorded in Tibet.

I did not! Those were the days when the giants walked the earth. Sic transit gloria mundi.

 

[nikkormat]

Marie-Laure de Decker:

Obituary

Wiki

Instagram

It seems that her son is currently organising her archive with a view to some major project; I really hope someone makes a documentary film about her.

 

[benjiboy]

Don't forget Margaret Burke - White who was an amazing woman, an outstanding photographer, and America's first female official war correspondent in WW 2.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Some of my favorites:

Evelyn Hofer
Latoya Ruby Frazier
Donna Ferrato
Judith Joy Ross
Tish Murtha
Susan Meiselas
Lois Conner

Adding to my list:

Rebecca Norris Webb
Vanessa Winship
Kelli Connell
Ming Smith

 

[Reginald S]

Highly creative and inspiring up to next generations:

Once famous Yva.

She has had an Atelier where Helmut Newton has been student .

Yva – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

 

[logan2z]

I don't think Dickey Chapelle has been mentioned yet.

 

[benjiboy]

I don't think Dickey Chapelle has been mentioned yet.

Look at post 120

 

[benjiboy]

I know it's an obscure one but Eudora Welty.