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Women have made significant contributions to photography since its inception.

Notable female photographers

Berenice Abbott 1898-1991
Karimeh Abbud 1896-1955
Heather Angel 1941-
Eleanor Antin 1935-
Diane Arbus 1923-1971
Eve Arnold 1913-
Anna Atkins 1799-1871
Alice Austen 1866-1952
Tina Barney 1945-
Hilla Becher 1934- (of the husband and wife team Bernd and Hilla Becher)
Ruth Bernhard 1905-2006
Margaret Bourke-White 1906-1971
Lola Álvarez Bravo 1907-1993
Esther Bubley 1921-1998
Marion Carpenter, 1920-2002. The first female National Press Photographer to cover Washington, D.C., the White House and travel with a US President.
Claude Cahun 1894-1954
Sophie Calle 1953-
Julia Margaret Cameron 1815-1879
Elinor Carucci 1971-
Carolyn Cole 1961-
Marie Cosindas 1925-
Imogen Cunningham 1883-1976
Louise Dahl-Wolfe 1895-1989
Lynn Davis 1944-
Anna Fox 1961-
Mary Fitzpatrick 1968-
Gisèle Freund 1908-2000
Eva Fuka 1927-
Anne Geddes 1956-
Wilda Gerideau-Squires 1946-
Laura Gilpin 1891-1979
Nan Goldin 1953-
Katy Grannan 1969-
Jacqueline Hassink 1966-
Masumi Hayashi 1945-2006
Hiromix 1976-
Hannah Hoch 1889-1978
Candida Höfer 1944-
Martha Holmes 1923-2006
Roni Horn 1955-
Miyako Ishiuchi 1947-
Lotte Jacobi 1896-1990
Frances Benjamin Johnston 1864-1952
Gertrude Käsebier 1852-1934
Rinko Kawauchi 1972-
Dorothea Lange 1895-1965
Nikki S. Lee 1970-
Annie Leibovitz 1949-
Zoe Leonard 1961-
Helen Levitt 1907-2009
Ruth Harriet Louise 1903-1940
Markéta Luskačová 1944-
Loretta Lux 1969-
Vivian Maier 1926-2009
Sally Mann 1951-
Mary Ellen Mark 1940-
Kate Matthews 1870-1956
Linda McCartney 1942-1998
Wendy McMurdo 1962-
Susan Meiselas 1948-
Hansel Mieth 1909-1998
Lee Miller 1907-1977
Lisette Model 1906-1983
Tina Modotti 1896-1942
Lucia Moholy 1894-1989
Inge Morath 1923-2002
Barbara Morgan 1900-1992
Shirin Neshat 1957-
Catherine Opie 1961-
Ruth Orkin 1921-1985
Sylvia Plachy 1943-
Melanie Pullen 1975-
Bettina Rheims 1952-
Leni Riefenstahl 1902-2003
Grace Robertson 1930-
Ruth Robertson 1905-1998
Barbara Rosenthal 1948-
Cindy Sherman 1954-
Shima Ryū 1823-1899
Mieko Shiomi 1909-1984
Lorna Simpson 1960-
Annegret Soltau 1946-
Hilda Sjölin 1835-1915
Sandy Skoglund 1946-
Jo Spence 1934-1992
Rose Tang 1967-
Anya Teixeira 1913-1992
Gerda Taro 1910-1937
Joyce Tenneson 1945-
Doris Ulmann 1884-1934
Carrie Mae Weems 1953-
Linda Wolf 1950-
Marion Post Wolcott 1910-1990
Francesca Woodman 1958-1981
Catherine Yass 1963-
Alison Galea Valletta 1987-
Madame Yevonde 1893-1975

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For further reading

Sullivan, Constance (1990). Women photographers. New York: Abrams. ISBN 0810939509. OCLC 21042087.
Rosenblum, Naomi (2000). A history of women photographers. 2nd ed. New York: Abbeville Publishing Group (Abbeville Press, Inc.). ISBN 0789206587. OCLC 43729073.