Under you will find a list of Famous Female Photographers and they are all female! Some famous photographers and others not so well known. This list includes the famous black and white photographers like Eslanda Robeson (who is also an anthropologist) and Adine Williams. You can use this list as inspiration and starting point for further exploration into the amazing world and work of female photographers from different countries
1. Famous female photographers from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Gertrude Käsebier 1852-1934
- Eva Watson-Schütze 1867-1935
- Frances Benjamin Johnson 1864-11952
- Berenice Abbott 1898-1991
- Doris Ulmann 1884-1934
- Karimeh Abbud 1896-1955
- Claude Cahun 1894-1954
- Julia Margaret Cameron 1815-1879
- Frances Benjamin Johnston 1864-1952
- Ruth Harriet Louise 1903-1940
- Tina Modotti 1896-1942
- Lucia Moholy 1894-1989
- Gerda Taro 1910-1937
- Laure Albin-Guillot 1880-1962
- Anna Atkins 1799-1871
- Alice Austen 1866-1952
- Emma Barton 1872-1938
- Alice Boughton 1866-1943
- Anne W. Brigman 1869-1950
- Christina Broom 1863-1939
- Mary Cassatt 1844-1926
- Nancy Ford Cones 1869-1962
- Clementina Hawarden 1822-1865
- Frances Benjamin Johnston 1864-1952
- Agnes Warburg 1872-1953
- Catharine Barnes Ward 1851-1913
- Jane Wigley
- Bessie Buehrmann
- Theresa Llwelyn
2. Famous female photographers who lived and worked during the 20th century
- Eslanda (Essie) Goode Robeson 1896-1965
- Ruth Bernhard 1905-2006
- Margaret Bourke-White 1906-1971
- Toni Frissell 1907-1988
- Esther Bubley 1921-1998
- Imogen Cunningham 1883-1976
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe 1895-1989
- Gisèle Freund 1908-2000
- Laura Gilpin 1891-1979
- Masumi Hayashi 1945-2006
- Hannah Hoch 1889-1978
- Martha Holmes 1923-2006
- Lotte Jacobi 1896-1990
- Dorothea Lange 1895-1965
- Fay Godwin 1931-2005
- Linda McCartney 1942-1998
- Lee Miller 1907-1977
- Lisette Model 1906-1983
- Inge Morath 1923-2002
- Barbara Morgan 1900-1992
- Ruth Orkin 1921-1985
- Leni Riefenstahl 1902-2003
- Dorothy Norman 1905-1997
- Diane Arbus 1923-1971
- Lola Àlvarez Bravo 1907-1993
- Shima Ryu 1823-1899
- Mieko Shiomi 1909-1984
- Jo Spence 1934-1992
- Anya Teixeira 1913-1992
- Adine Williams
- Marion Post Wolcott 1910-1990
- Francesca Woodman 1958-1981
- Mary Bayard Wootten 1875-1959
- Madame Yevonde 1893-1975
3. Famous female photographers who are still alive today (ordered by year of birth):
- Eve Arnold 1913-
- Lillian Bassman 1917-
- Grace Robertson 1930-
- Hilla Becher 1934-
- Eleanor Antin 1935-
- Mary Ellen Mark 1940-
- Heather Angel 1941-
- Sylvia Plachy 1943-
- Lynn Davis 1944-
- Markéta Luskac 1944-
- Joyce Tenneson 1945-
- Tina Barney 1945-
- Sandy Skoglund 1946-
- Susan Meiselas 1948-
- Annie Leibovitz (1949-)
- Linda Wolf 1950-
- Sally Mann 1951-
- Bettina Reims 1952-
- Sophie Calle 1953-
- Nan Goldin 1953-
- Carrie Mae Weems 1953-
- Cindy Sherman 1954-
- Shirin Neshat 1957-
- Brigitte Lacombe 1958-
- Lorna Simpson 1960-
- Carolyn Cole 1961-
- Anna Fox 1961-
- Catherine Opie 1961-
- Catherine Yass 1963-
- Inez van Lamsweerde 1963-
- Mary Fitzpatrick 1968-
- Alexandra Hedison 1969-
- Loretta Lux 1969-
- Lori Nix 1969-
- Elinor Carucci 1971-