This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up the celebration of ladies photographers maintains in honour of International Women's Day, which this 12 months fell between weblog posts. This week features a number of the work of three woman photographers from the early to mid twentieth century - Imogen Cunningham, Nina Leen and Margaret Bourke-White. All 3 had a completely unique way of seeing, have been passionate, determined and talented.
Special Feature:
Women Photographers
Imogen Cunningham
American Imogen Cunningham came to photography in 1906 while she become analyzing chemistry at college. In the early years she labored from her studio in Seattle wherein she mounted herself in portraiture. Later she moved to San Francisco and started out her study of plant life. She was a co-founding father of the Group f/sixty four, along with Ansel Adams, that is credited with establishing a West Coast fashion of pictures. Imogen persisted to picture till her loss of life at 93.
Nina Leen - Circus Girls
Russian-born photographer Nina Leen moved to the US in 1939. She became one of the first women photographers at LIFE magazine and commenced taking pictures for the title in 1945. Her association with LIFE persevered till the mag folded. Fascinated with the approaches wherein people lived their lives, Nina travelled to Sarasota, Florida in 1949 to shoot an essay on circus ladies.
Margaret Bourke-White
New Yorker Margaret Bourke-White began her illustrious profession with Fortune magazine in 1929. Later she have become the first girl to shoot for LIFE. She mounted herself initially as an commercial photographer. But her oeuvre is sizeable and consists of documentation of the Great Depression and also some of the maximum essential photographs of the liberation of the Nazi awareness camps. She turned into bold, wise, bold and fearless.
On top of the Chrysler constructing in New York wherein she had an office on the 61st floor
Sharecroppers, Great Depression
Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps (above and below)
Victims of the Kentucky Floods
Industrial Works
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