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19 th Century Photographers. Unknown Amateur Photographer. First, the numbers of male and female photographers in Britain, decade by decade: 1851: 50 males and 1 female 1861: 2789 males and 168 females 1871: 4021 males and 694 females 1881: 5352 males and 1309 females
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19th Century Photographers Unknown Amateur Photographer
First, the numbers of male and female photographers in Britain, decade by decade: 1851: 50 males and 1 female 1861: 2789 males and 168 females 1871: 4021 males and 694 females 1881: 5352 males and 1309 females 1891: 8102 males and 2469 females 1901: 11,148 males and 3851 females 1911: 11,899 males and 5016 females % Women 1870/1 1880/1 1890/1 1900/1 America 2.6% 4.6% 8.9% 13.3% Britain 14.7% 19.7% 23.4% 25.7% “The fact remains that there were 7,423 professional women photographers in Britain and America by 1900, which means that there was one female to every 4.6 male photographers. This is a much higher ratio than is reflected in the historical literature, and this fact alone deserves some explanation.”
Charles Darwin, c. 1868 Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1869
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1869 Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1872
Thy Will be Done, 1872 Raphael detail
Cameron, Beatrice Cenci, 1870 Hawarden, Study from Life, c. 1862
c. 1857-1861. c. 1859-61.
Study from Life, c. 1862-3 Study from Life, c.1863-64
From the 1880s,many more photographers Amateur Photographers on Cruise Ship, c.1905
Mother and Child (Mrs. Ward and Baby), 1903.
James Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black, 1871 Cecilia Beaux, Les Derniers Jours d’Enfance, 1885
Kasebier, Blessed Art Thou Among Women c. 1900Photogravure, 9 1/16 x 5 3/16 in.
My Neighbors, 1905 Similar to Marriage: Yoked and Muzzled
The Adoration, c. 1900 The Picture-Book, 1905
Alfred Stieglitz, 1906 Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1911
Pastoral, 1905 Harbor View Across Dock, 1912
Frances Benjamin Johnson (American,1864 - 1952) Self-Portrait as Bohemian, 1896 Self-Portrait as Victorian Lady, 1896
Frances Benjamin Johnston selling tintypes at a Virginia country fair, May 1903.
Self-Portrait as Bohemian, 1896 Self-Portrait as Victorian Lady, 1896