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.”

Julia Margaret CameronBritish, 1815 - 1879

Charles Darwin, c. 1868 Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1869

Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1872 Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1869

Beatrice Cenci, 1870

Elaine,1875

The Rosebud Garden of Girls, 1868

The Rosebud Garden of Girls, 1868

Thy Will be Done, 1872

Raphael detail

Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65)

Cameron, Beatrice Cenci, 1870Hawarden, Study from Life, c. 1862

c. 1857-1861.

c. 1859-61.

Misc. stereoscopic cards, unknown photographers

Study from Life, c.1860

Study from Life,c. 1864

Study from Life, c. 1862-3 Study from Life, c.1863-64

Dog balancing on two chairs, c.1861

From the 1880s,many more photographers

Amateur Photographers on Cruise Ship, c.1905

Gertrude Kåsebier

Dorothy, 1903

Mother and Child(Mrs. Ward and Baby), 1903.

James Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black, 1871

Cecilia Beaux, Les Derniers Jours d’Enfance, 1885

The Adoration, c. 1900

                                 Kasebier, Blessed Art Thou Among Womenc. 1900Photogravure, 9 1/16 x 5 3/16 in.

My Neighbors, 1905Similar to Marriage: Yoked and Muzzled

The Heritage of Motherhood, 1904

The Picture-Book, 1905 The Adoration, c. 1900

Alfred Stieglitz, 1906 Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1911

Harbor View Across Dock, 1912Pastoral, 1905

Lollipops, c. 1910

Frances Benjamin Johnson (American,1864 - 1952)

Self-Portrait as Bohemian, 1896

Self-Portrait as Victorian Lady, 1896

Mark Twain, 1906

Susan B. Anthony in her study

Frances Benjamin Johnston selling tintypes at a Virginia country fair, May 1903.

“Scribners for June” by Charles Dana Gibson, 1896

Self-Portrait as Bohemian, 1896

Self-Portrait as Victorian Lady, 1896

Albert Morrow, The New Woman, Lithograph, 1894

The new woman--wash day circa 1901.

Sailors, n.d.

                                            

A Class in American History, 1899

Students Boarding Trolley,1899

Interior, c. 1919

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