Women Photographers in Great Britain 1900 - 1950

Fri 06 Feb 1987 - Sat 14 Mar 1987

 

 
Brixton Market © Margaret Monck, 1934. PV Card image, 1987, courtesy The Photographers' Gallery Archive

Women Photographers in Great Britain 1900 - 1950

Fri 06 Feb 1987 - Sat 14 Mar 1987

 

 

This event is part of our Past Programme

This exhibition traces the documentary and experimental practices by women photographers who have been forgotten or neglected by mainstream photography in Great Britain.

 

Featuring Christina Broom, Lizzie Caswell, Lena Connell, Olive Edis, Lady Hawarden, Gertrude Jekyll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Margaret Monck, Helen Muspratt, Grace Robertson, Norah Smyth, Edith Tudor-Hart, Ursula Powys-Lybbe, Gerti Deutsch, Elisabeth Chat, Vanessa Bell, Agnes Warburg, Winifred Casson, Barbara Ker-Seymer, Madame Yevonde, Anna Atkins, Dorothy Wilding & Lisa Sheridan.

 

The exhibition was toured by National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford. Curated by Val Williams

For further information on this and past exhibitions, visit our Archive and Study Room.