Women photographers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 128. Chapters: Julia Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Astrid Kirchherr, Diane Arbus, Eudora Welty, Inge Morath, Annie Leibovitz, Marion Carpenter, Cindy Sherman, Margaret Bourke-White, Sally Mann, Berenice Abbott, Toyoko Tokiwa, Tina Modotti, Gertrude Käsebier, Anna Atkins, Claude Cahun, Penny Wolin, Deborah Willis, Germaine Krull, Dana Claxton, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Dulah Marie Evans, Hannah Wilke, Doris Ulmann, Charis Wilson, Lauren Greenfield, Adelaide Hanscom Leeson, Alice Austen, M.J. Alexander, Janette Beckman, Consuelo Kanaga, Melanie Pullen, Marie ¿echtlová, Marilyn Silverstone, Myra Albert Wiggins, Indrani, Helen Levitt, Karen S. Davis, Nan Goldin, Erin Manning, Vivian Maier, Clara Sipprell, Yoshino Oishi, Mary Ellen Mark, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Olive Cotton, Fay Godwin, Laura Gilpin, Graciela Iturbide, Eva Watson-Schütze, Imogen Cunningham, Jah Jah, Markéta Luskacová, Judy Fiskin, Anne Brigman, Mary Willumsen, Alice Boughton, Sonya Noskowiak, Susan Meiselas, Toni Frissell, Heidi Hollinger, Jette Bang, Michiko Matsumoto, Catherine Leroy, Zoe Leonard, Wendy Ewald, Elsa Spear Byron, Rose Clark, Lotte Herrlich, Priscilla Rattazzi, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Elizabeth Heyert, Sarah Choate Sears, Eve Arnold, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Ilse Bing, Editta Sherman, Mary Steen, Sandy Skoglund, Marion Post Wolcott, Naomi Harris, Carrie Mae Weems, Alma Lavenson, Lisette Model, Susan Hacker Stang, Sarah Ladd, Svetlana K-Lie, Mary Rosse, Elizabeth Buehrmann, Shao Hua, Lotte Jacobi, Christina Broom, Women in photography, Mary Devens, Yurie Nagashima, Polly Smith, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Ekaterina Kruchkova, Louise Rosskam, Hiromix, Dora Kallmus, Elizabeth Flint Wade, Gisèle Freund, Evelyn Hockstein, Emmanuelle Riva, Janine Niépce, Olive Edis, Lique Schoot, Margrethe Mather, Amy Gulick, Mieko Shiomi, Shima Ryu, Amelia Ellis, Linda Connor, Mayotte Magnus, Sofia Ahlbom, Isabel Muñoz, Emma Barton, Hou Bo, Judy Dater, Miyako Ishiuchi, Jan Groover, Ida Kar, Eiko Yamazawa, Hisae Imai, Shiho Fukada, Hilda Sjölin, Cozue Takagi, Constance Stuart Larrabee, Cristina García Rodero, Yuki Onodera, Professional Women Photographers, Fusako Kodama, Ruiko Yoshida, Tomoko Miyamoto, Yasuko Kotani, Kei Orihara, Aya Kida, Michiko Kon, Tsuneko Sasamoto, Yoshiko Shimada, Kunie Sugiura. Excerpt: Diane Arbus ( ; March 14, 1923 ¿ July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transvestites, nudists, circus performers) or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid... that she would be known simply as 'the photographer of freaks'"; however, that phrase has been used repeatedly to describe her. In 1972, a year after she committed suicide, Arbus became the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale. Millions of people viewed traveling exhibitions of her work in 1972-1979. In 2003-2006, Arbus and her work were the subjects of another major traveling exhibition, Diane Arbus Revelations. In 2006, the motion picture Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as Arbus, presented a fictional version of her life story. Although some of Arbus's photographs have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction, Arbus's work has provoked controversy; for example, Norman Mailer was quoted in 1971 as saying "Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a chil...