Your favorite female photographer

[John Conway]

I have a few that I like very much.Imogen Cunningham, Gertrude Kasebier and Ruth Bernhard are at the top of my list. But the one woman photographer that I have always admired the most is Annie W Brigman. When I first saw her pictures I was blown away. I still am. Soul of the Blasted Pine was the first one I came across on one rainy day a long time ago when I was hanging out at my local library checking out photography books all day. Some day , hopefully soon, I can look at an original print of hers on a wall somewhere. I can only imagine how beautiful it will be.

[Jay DeFehr]

Tough one. Off the top of my head I'd say Judith Joy Ross, Ellen Von Unwerth, and my dear Julia. There are many I didn't name that I also admire, but favorites lists should be short, I think.

[D. Bryant]

I have a few that I like very much.Imogen Cunningham, Gertrude Kasebier and Ruth Bernhard are at the top of my list. But the one woman photographer that I have always admired the most is Annie W Brigman. When I first saw her pictures I was blown away. I still am. Soul of the Blasted Pine was the first one I came across on one rainy day a long time ago when I was hanging out at my local library checking out photography books all day. Some day , hopefully soon, I can look at an original print of hers on a wall somewhere. I can only imagine how beautiful it will be.

Esther Bubley, Helen Levitz, Vivian Maier . For contemporary work Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz, Laura Noel, Sandy Skoglund, Maggie Taylor - to name but a few. There isn't a short list for me.

Don Bryant

[David E. Rose]

Margaret Bourke-White, Fay Godwin.

[DrTang]

Diane Arbus

[Kirk Gittings]

Diane Arbus, Francesca Woodman, Karen Kuehn, Laura Gilpin, Fay Godwin

[Greg Y]

Laura Gilpin, ever since i saw "A Chance Meeting in the Desert"

[neil poulsen]

I really liked Imogen Cunningham's work.

Another that I liked was Mary Casindas. (Not sure if I have this spelled correctly.)

[Vaughn]

The Classics -- Imogen and Ruth B.
Modern -- Linda Conner, Sally Mann, Elaine Ling, Kate Jordahl

[bob carnie]

Lillian Bassman and Julia Margaret Cameron are first on my list. I also like Maggie Taylor's work but have not scene enough to really appreciate her work enough.

I am a fan of Vivian Maier but the book that was published was so poorly produced that I can only imagine how great her prints would look.

[Per Madsen]

Julia Margaret Cameron and Imogen Cunningham.

[Robert Brummitt]

Imogen, Ruth, Margaret, Martha Casanave, Lorraine Richey. More to come but these names come on top of my list.

[Brian Ellis]

Cindy Sherman, Mary Ellen Mark.

[jnantz]

emma eileen mcclure

[Emil Schildt]

I have a couple of books of Annie Brigman. Lovely stuff!

I have several favourite female photographers:

Sally Mann
Ruth Bernhard
Julia M Cameron
Lillian Bassmann

and more - women you all know about...

But I really would like more people to know about Kirsten Klein.
Several books out - unfortunately all text is in Danish, as she is very danish at hart, but who cares? The images talk!

Her latest book is impressive!
Called "Mellem lyset og mørket" (between the light and the darkness)

see here: http://www.gucca.dk/boeger/mellem-lyset-og-moerket_163287.html

My heroine!

[prado333]

In no particular order
Mary Ellen Mark
Cristina Garcia Rodero
Sally Mann
Lynn Davis
Sarah Moon

[cowanw]

Margaret Watkins and Clara Sipprell
Both Canadians

[Bruce Watson]

Margaret Bourke-White, Fay Godwin.

+1 for Bourke-White. Best sense of visual rhythm I've ever found, male or female.

[Ari]

Linda McCartney! (née Eastman) :)

and Ellen von Unworth

[JWebb]

Judy Dater
Joyce Tenneson
Sally Mann
Ruth Bernard

[Greg Lockrey]

Sarah Jarrett
Laura Campbell
and most of the usual names

[D. Bryant]

I can only imagine how great her prints would look.

I just saw a batch of prints of her work - here:

http://www.jacksonfineart.com/exhibitions_current.php

These are from the Goldstein collection of her work (original prints and negatives) vs the Maloof collection. Most of the prints in the exhibit for sale were contemporary prints (not vintage made during her life) although there were a handful of smallish prints that were vintage available for sale. I attended the opening for her show at the Jackson Fine Art gallery and there was wall to wall people attending the opening with some very interested buyers of her work. I thought the contemporary prints were over priced at $1800 each though for serious well healed collectors this would probably be a good price point with room to negotiate a price cut if they were serious.

The print quality of the vintage prints weren't that great, at least IMO, and certainly over priced at $3000, however 10 or 15 years from now that price maybe considered a bargain.

More of her work online here:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/vivian-maier/

Don Bryant

[Joe Smigiel]

Anne Brigman
Jan Groover
Sheila Metzner
Francesca Woodman
Elizabeth Opalenik
Olivia Parker (early work)

[robert lyons]

Helen Levitt

[cowanw]

HANSEL MIETH deserves mention

[cowanw]

I am usually a thread ender:
So let's not forget Ruth Harriet Louise, One of the first and Possibly only female hollywood studio photographer.
As to Franks thread and the discussion of sex/race, I think that there is more to our appreciation of a photographer than the photograph. The life and effort and circumstances the photographer faced are a large part of our appreciation.

[Bill_1856]

Marie Cosindas
Dorothea Lange

[D. Bryant]

Paula Chamlee, a friend who is one of the finest photographers around. Works mainly in large format, develops by inspection and contact prints images that sing. Her books are very good with High Plains Farm showing what one can do with the 5x7 and 8x10 camera on location. Lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, photographer Michael A. Smith.

Paula does have a great eye and a sweet person to boot!

[Tony Karnezis]

Paula Chamlee, a friend who is one of the finest photographers around. Works mainly in large format, develops by inspection and contact prints images that sing. Her books are very good with High Plains Farm showing what one can do with the 5x7 and 8x10 camera on location. Lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, photographer Michael A. Smith.


Paula does have a great eye and a sweet person to boot!

+1

[Doug Howk]

Unless I missed it, surprised no one has mentioned Eve Arnold who recently passed away. And her recent book "All About Eve" is excellent.

[RTucker]

My favorite are Berenice Abbott, and Laura Gilpin, wonderful large format work.

[Frank Bagbey]

My favorite female photographer (how can I limit it to one?) would be Sally Mann.

[Helen Bach]

Among my favourite photographers are Jo Spence and Candida Höfer, who don't seem to have been mentioned yet.

[soeren]

>SNIP
But I really would like more people to know about Kirsten Klein.
Several books out - unfortunately all text is in Danish, as she is very danish at hart, but who cares? The images talk!

Her latest book is impressive!
Called "Mellem lyset og mørket" (between the light and the darkness)

see here: http://www.gucca.dk/boeger/mellem-lyset-og-moerket_163287.html

My heroine!

Ditto That
http://www.photomondo.dk/InfoPhoto/User_kikl/StartNative.html
Best regards

[Edward (Halifax,NS)]

Paula Chamlee's photographs of Tuscany are wonderful.

[Don Dudenbostel]

I really love the work of Imogen Cunningham. I had the privledge of spending a day with her at her home in 1975. What a great day talking with her and looking at her negatives and listening to her stories.

I'm also a big fan of Dorothia Lange and Margaret Bourne White to name just a few.

[Keith Tapscott.]

I liked the photographs made by Fay Godwin, but AFAIK, she worked with medium-format rather than large-format.

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/features/Icons_of_Photography__Iconic_Photographer__Fay_Godwin_features_303508.html

[George E. Sheils]

Evelyn Hofer...she did a fantastic series in Ireland and in many other countries of course using a Linhof.

Here are a few of her images:

http://www.google.ie/search?q=evelyn+hofer&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=szJbT4fUMIu3hAfZyuioBA&sqi=2&ved=0CEIQsAQ&biw=1010&bih=606

[Michael Wainfeld]

Ruth Orkin
Helen Levitt
Paula Chamlee

[Doug Howk]

Some others that have not been mentioned:
Elaine Ling - beautiful/spiritual work as in "Mongolia"
Linda Connor - for her beautiful alt-process prints as in "Odyssey"
Linda Butler - as with "Inner Light: the Shaker Legacy"
Laurie Brown - "Recent Terrains"
Anna Tomczak - "Sanctuary", her Polaroid transfers
Lois Conner - eg, panoramas of China

[John Conway]

I am so glad I started this thread. I have , as I am sure so many others have as well, learned so much about so many women photographers that I did not know before.

[William McEwen]

I agree with many greats listed here, and would like to add June Newton. (35mm, though.)

[Struan Gray]

My favourite female photographer is probably Fay Godwin, with Imogen Cunningham coming in second place. Perhaps tied with Susan Meiselas.

My favourite female inspirations branch off quickly into other arts. Abstract painters/designers like Brigit Riley and Sonja Delaunay figure hightly, as does Gwen John's quiet portraiture and Barbara Hepworth's scultures.

My bookmarks list has about a 70-30 male-female mix. I don't really mind if the photographers use large format, but I tend to collect (virtually) photographs which could of been made with a slow camera on a tripod, and which, more importantly, reward a bit of thought and contemplation.

Google fodder:

Tina Enghoff
Sonja Thomsen
Laura MacPhee
Sally Gall
Beth Dow
Laura Plageman
Lisa Adamucci
Britta Isenrath
Jessica Hilltout
Jane Alden Stevens
Astrid Korntheuer
Celine Clanet
Elaine Duigenan
Magda Biernat
Sophie Gerrard
Karin Apollonia Müller
Emma Livingston
Susanne Katzenberg
Maegan Hill-Carroll
Mary Dennis
Mary Frey
Natascha Libbert
Dana Miller
Anne Schwalbe
Rachel Sussman
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
Heidi Specker
Veronica Bailey
Rachel Brown
Lynn Davis
Cig Harvey
Sabrina Jung
Caroline Dear

That seems like a lot, but it's just the tip. I have learned something from all of them.

[Lynn Jones]

Julia Margaret Cameron, Ylla, Maggie Bourke-White, M.E.Mark, Dorothea Lange, to name a few of my faorites.

Lynn

[George E. Sheils]

Julia Margaret Cameron, Ylla, Maggie Bourke-White, M.E.Mark, Dorothea Lange, to name a few of my faorites.

Lynn

Yes, Lynn. I agree with you there. Particularly on the inclusion of Dorothea Lange.

Regards,
George.

[Jim Graves]

Martha Casanave - love her work! Link to her site (http://www.marthacasanave.com/)

[Chris Strobel]

Ruth Bernhard

[dperez]

I'll add Virginia Beahan to the list.