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American Women Photographers and Selected Works

Women working as photographic documentarians and artists have been an important part of photographic history since its inception. Women photographers continue to be creative forces in our contemporary culture.

The Smithsonian works to tell the stories of women within our museums and beyond our walls to honor the past, inform the present, and inspire the future.


Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Bette Davis

Owens Valley near Lone Pine, California

Isamu Noguchi

William Edmondson

Juan O'Gorman house

Woman on a Porch

Angna Enters

Ruth St. Denis

Corn Shocks and Sky

Clara Sipprell

Lucy Sipprell

Laura Gilpin

Mulholland near Canyon Lake Drive, Los Angeles, California 1993

Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs

Lillian Gish

Marina's Room

John Burroughs with his Grandchildren

Renée Fleming

Theresa, a street-wise eight year old, Butchers Hill

Holy Thursday, Greek Orthodox Celebration

Katharine Cornell

Carole Lombard

Martha Graham

Lorna Simpson

Lisette Model

Sailor and Girl, Sammy's Bar

Ella Fitzgerald

Louis Armstrong

New York, 1976

Untitled (Ella on silk)

Gram and John in Pool (Floating), New York

Cindy Sherman

Dreamer on Horseback

Hite Crossing, Lake Powell, Utah


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