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| Dickey
Chapelle was a woman of action. With a Leica hanging from
her neck, cigarette in hand, dressed in her signature custom
tailored fatigues, harlequin glasses and pearl earrings; driven
by the need to prove herself in the "boys club"
world of photojournalism and an increasingly obsessive need
for the truth, as she saw it; a combat photographer who strove
to be the first on a story, for Dickey it wasn't enough to
be near the action of which she was reporting, she had to
be in the center of it. more... |
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| Pulitzer
Prize winning author Eudora Welty started her career as a photographer
who made images of Depression-era America for President Franklin
Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, the agency formed
to provide work for poor folks in this time. Her heart-wrenching
depictions of small-town Mississippi brought her international
acclaim, as Welty sensitively captured the pride she saw among
even the poorest people. more... |
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| Helen
Levitt made her mark on photography during a volatile time in
America. The social crisis of the 1930's inspired photographers
to work for government funded projects to expose and correct
the social problems. Walker
Evans documented the rural south and Lewis
Hine labor conditions while Dorothea
Lange revealed urban plights. Helen Levitt chose a different
path. more... |
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| As
an art major at the University of California at Los Angeles
in 1919, Barbara Morgan longed to be a painter. In 1925, she
married freelance writer/philosopher Willard Morgan, who introduced
her to photography, even talking her into wearing a Leica around
her neck so she could “shoot the unexpected.”(Mitchell) Morgan
was initially skeptical of photography, “If you just click the
shutter, you are stealing reality! I can’t be a thief. I must
create.” (Aperture) more... |
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| "My
favorite thing is to go where I've never been. For me there's
just something about going into somebody else's house. When
it comes time to go, if I have to take a bus to somewhere or
if I have to take a cab uptown, it's like I've got a blind date.
It's always seemed something like that to me. And sometimes
I have the sinking feeling of, Oh God it's time and I really
don't want to go. And then, once I'm on my way, something terrific
takes over..." more... |
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| On
June 11, 1815, Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the first prominent
women photographers. Born into a wealthy and influential family,
she was one of the seven celebrated Pattle sisters who were
known for their unconventional rules for life which interested
and stimulated other people. "They were unconscious artists,
divining beauty and living with it," said Anne Thackeray Ritchie
of her first impression of them. more... |
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