Women Photojournalists
Prints & Photographs
Division Holdings
Overview: 1800s-1900s | 1910s-1920s | 1930s-1950s | 1960s-1990s | Related
Resources | Bibliography
Overview
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division preserves millions of images that
were created for publication in magazines
and newspapers. This overview highlights
the work of women photojournalists represented
in the Library’s
collections, because interest in studying
their roles, lives, and accomplishments is
growing. Additional biographical and collection
summary information is in preparation for
many of the individuals listed below.
Pioneers who worked in the late 1800s and early
1900s
- Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942)
- Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869-1933)
- Gerhard Sisters of St. Louis (photographed
1890s to 1936)
- Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) [view
Collection
summary]
- Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934)
- Alice Rohe (1876-1957)
Women who entered the field in the late 1910s
to 1920s
- M. Thérèse Bonney (1894-1978) [view
Biographical sketch]
- Helen Johns Kirtland (1890-1979) [view Overview]
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- Lisette Model (1901-1983)
- Tina Modotti (1896-1942)
- “Matsy” Wynn Richards (1888-1960)
[Note: Search in PPOC under Wynn Richards]
- Eleanor Butler Roosevelt (1889-1960)
- Doris Ulmann (1882-1934)
Women who came to prominence in the 1930s to 1950s
Women who joined the profession in the 1960s to
1990s
Related Resources at the Library of Congress
Women Come to the Front: Journalists,
Photographers, and Broadcasters during
World War II (online exhibition)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/.
Photojournalism Collections:
"Photojournalism Collections" in American
Women
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/photojournalism.html.
George Grantham Bain Collection
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/Bain_coll.html.
Look Magazine Photograph Collection
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/lookhtml/lookback.html.
Women photographer's names are available
through an online index to this collection
[view online
index]
National Photo Company Collection
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/npcohtml/npcoabt.html.
New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper
Photograph Collection http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/130_nyw.html.
U.S.
News & World Report Magazine
Photograph Collection (USNWR), http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/usnews_coll.html.
Bibliography
Carlebach, Michael L. The Origins of
Photojournalism in America. Washington,
DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Call number: TR820.C357 1992
---. American
Photojournalism Comes of Age. Washington,
DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Call number: TR820.C356 1997
---, and Eugene
F. Provenzo. Farm Security Administration
Photographs of Florida. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 1993. Call number:
F312.C37 1993
Gover, C. Jane. The Positive Image: Women
Photographers in Turn of the Century America. Albany:
State University of New York, 1988. Call
number: TR23.G68 1988
McCusker, Carol. Breaking the Frame: Pioneering
Women in Photojournalism. San Diego:
Museum of Photographic Arts, 2006. ISBN:
1-878062-06-9 (No copy in the Library of
Congress.)
Mitchell, Margaretta K. Recollections:
Ten Women of Photography. New York:
Viking Press, 1979. Call number: TR139.R38
Morgan, Margaret Knox. “Women in Photojournalism.” Popular
Photography 54 (Feb. 1964): 41, 80-83. Call
number: TR1.P8845
Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne. Viewfinders:
Black Women Photographers. New York:
Dodd, Mead, 1986. Call number: TR139.M63
1986 Biog
Newman, Cathy. Women Photographers at
National Geographic. Washington, DC:
National Geographic, 2002. Call number: TR139
.N49 2000
Panzer, Mary. Things As They Are.
New York: Aperture Foundation/World Press
Photo, 2005.
Call number: MLCL 2006/40058
Rosenblum, Naomi. A History of Women Photographers. 2d
ed. New York: Abbeville Press, 2000. Call
number: TR139.R67
2000
Sullivan, Constance, ed. Women Photographers.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. Call number: TR650.W65
1990
Tucker, Anne, ed. The Woman’s Eye.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Call number: TR650.T78
1973
Prepared by: Beverly Brannan,
Curator of Photography. Last revised: September
2007.
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