A women sits on a bed with her head in her hand, wearing a purple robe looking up at another fully dressed woman who stands with her back to the camera, her hands in her pockets. The two women are most likely Cowin. A man lies on the bed in a stark...
Color photography; Women; Women photographers; Men; Bedroom furniture; Bedding
Two nude women, possibly Marion Morgan Dancers, lounge on an over-sized concrete bench outdoors. One woman has a light swath of cloth across her lower torso and holds a mirror or fan.
Figure Study; Female nude in art; Photography of the nude; Women; Photography-California; Women photographers; Platinum print
Commentary: In Golden Fox, Blue Fox, a photograph which appeared in Harper’s Bazaar in November 1954, Marilyn Ambrose, a prominent model of the time, is seen intimately, her face half in shadow, half in a soft glow of light. Ambrose’s visage is...
Black-and-white photography; Gelatin silver print; Women photographers; Fashion
People walking up and sitting on the steps to the British Museum seem not to notice the tall female figure in a long black dress standing facing them. The figure is most likely Weems. The stairs cut midway through the image on a horizontal line....
Black-and-white photography; Women artists, Black; Women, Black, in art; Columns; Stairs; Dresses; British Museum
A young woman with a short, sleek haircut, wearing dark lipstick and menswear-inspired clothing, looks out from the window of a train in Waterloo Station, London.
Black-and-white photography; Women; Women photographers; Street life; London (England); Trains; Urban life
Woman with long hair her arm around a man dressed in jeans and denim jacket both sitting on a park bench in Washington Square Park, NYC, 1965.
Women; Men; Washington Square Park (New York, N. Y.); Documentary photography; Street photography; Women photographers; New York (N. Y.); Portrait photography; Urban life
A group of women and girls in traditional dress, standing in front of a stone wall. Probably from Béchard's work in Egypt in the 1870s and 1880s. Two albumen prints mounted on one mount.
A black-and-white cityscape shot of the New York Stock Exchange building in Manhattan, from the ground looking up.
Black-and-white photography; Street photography; New York Stock Exchange; Commercial buildings; Cityscape photography; Women photographers; Architectural photography; Urban life
Desolate farmland. Scene is divided in half by a distant fence line - with clouds in the top portion and dried up farmland in the bottom portion. Foreground includes remnants of cement foundation, a collapsed clothes line and a pump (?).
Landscape; Farms; Documentary photography; Women photographers
Portrait of a woman wearing an ornate headband and a long beaded (possibly pearls?) necklace wrapped around the neck multiple times. Zoe was a heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. She was reputed to be shy until the Turks attacked...
Albumen paper print; Portrait; Portrait photography; Headbands; Hair ornaments; Necklaces; Women photographers
Barbara Mullen’s celebrated twenty-inch waist is at the center of Flat Hat Bare Back, which Bassman shot for Harper’s Bazaar in 1958. The formal, compositional elements of black-and-white fashion photography, which have since become Bassman’s...
Black-and-white photography; Gelatin silver print; Women photographers; Fashion
Side view of a nude woman seated in the branches of a tree.
Pine; Female nude in art; Nudes (representations); Platinum print; Trees in art; Women photographers; Photography-California; California-Pictorial works; Pictorialism (Photography movement)
