***Women in Photography: A Story Still Written***
Queen Victoria is a photography art champion. In addition to providing protection against what is going to be The Roval Photographic Society, Queen Victoria begins the practice of placing a guest card in an album As a practice caught amongst aristocratic women, photo albums become a sign of status, spreading the demand and appreciation of the culture of photography. In the 1880s, Kodak had realized the increasing participation of women in photography and launched a marketing campaign with Kodak Women. At about the same time, female photographers and journalists began actively advancing photography as an appropriate profession for women. In 1897, Ladies' Home Journal published an article "What A Woman Can Do with a Camera.
International Women's Day is a reminder to stop and consider the role that women face in our lives, to celebrate progress and to re-mark the need for continued change. As a woman and Tuts + photo and video organizers, I want to stop and consider the role that women get in photography. How do women make life in photography, and how do they continue to make it happen in photography?
History Women have been an active part of photography since its inception. Though unappreciated in the discovery of photography, women have played an important role that works equally with the pioneers, often printing for their husbands, and photographing it themselves. Joseph Niépce, the inventor of photography, spoke through his experiments in a letter to his brother-in-law. Constance Talbot (1811-1880), wife of pioneer photography Henry Fox Talbot, and Anna Atkins (1799-1871), an English botanist and friend of Talbot, was the first female photographer. They took photos with Talbot and his colleagues as they developed and progressed the earliest methods of photography.
The British and American Census shows that in 1900, there were more than 7000 professional female photographers Women made nearly 20 percent of the profession at that time unlikely even women have professions. Bahkar, the photography studio enhances their business by offering "female operators" to photograph women and families. Because there is the potential for physical contact while posing, the studio can attract more women and families to do a job if the photos will be taken by a woman.
Photography as an art, not just science, evolved in part as a result of the meek lady who was pursuing photography as an art medium. Unlimited by the need for income, women like Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) and Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) can experiment and encourage photography to new realms in both the captured photo style and the nature of the subject being photographed. Indeed, even the idea of image compositing was still alive and flourishing in the mid-1800s with women incorporating their drawing skills and cutting with photography to create photo arrangements.