Female Photographers Of Bygone Eras

Gertrude Kasëbier, Francesca Woodman, Nina Leen + more - A celebration of the Female Gaze

[lascitasdelashoras]

Ruth Orkin

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Boys Fishing from Pier. 1949

Photo: Ruth Orkin

[joeinct]

Street Embrace, New York City, Photo by Ruth Orkin, 1948-50

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Lauren Bacall, St. Regis Hotel, New York City, 1950. Ruth Orkin. Unkown technique.

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Ruth Orkin (September 3, 1921 – January 16, 1985), People Lying on Tanglewood Lawn, Lenox, Massachusetts, 1948.

[mydaguerreotypedaughter]

Beautiful images by Nell Dorr. I can’t believe I’m just discovering her now, her work is exactly what I love. Her photos were apparently endorsed by the U.S. information agency for “promoting American family values” but not everyone is cut out to be a radical I guess.

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Barbara Morgan

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Eva Besnyö

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Barbara Morgan

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Francesca Woodman

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Anne Brigman, 1900s. Dreamy female gaze.

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Nina Leen, 1940s

[inthedarktrees]

“Teen-Age Girls: They Live In a Wonderful World of Their Own”

Nina Leen, Life, Dec 11, 1944

[mydaguerreotypedaughter]

Nina Leen- her work is so beautifully surreal. This one reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock. "The Birds."

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Diane Arbus- 2s

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Helen Levitt, subway photographs. I rode the subway for the first time in a long time this week so I thought it would be fitting.

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Francesca Woodman