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The indexed biographies correspond to artists born between 1664 and 1974.
1935 — 2024 | Ghana

Felicia Abban

1898 — 1991 | United States

Berenice Abbott

1961 | Palestine

Buthina Abu Milhem

1956 | Syria

Hala Alabdalla

1907 — 1993 | Mexico

Lola Álvarez Bravo

1799 — 1871 | United Kingdom

Anna Atkins

1969 | Russia

Louisa Babari

1911 | China

LIANG Baibo

1908 — Spain | 1994 — Germany

Manuela Ballester Vilaseca

1872 — 1954 | France

Jeanne Bardey

1971 | France

Yto Barrada

1937 | Algeria

Martine Barrat

1936 | France

Sophie Bassouls

1935 — 1981 | France

Claude Batho

1934 — 2015 | Germany

Hilla Becher

1892 — Russia | 1981 — Latvia

Aleksandra Beļcova

1910 — Hungary | 2003 — Netherlands

Eva Besnyő

1955 | Switzerland

Ursula Biemann

1699 — Scotland | 1758 — Great Britain

Elizabeth Blackwell

1957 | Canada

Dominique Blain

1904 — 1991 | Slovakia

Irén Blüh (Irena Blühova)

1904 — 1971 | United States

Margaret Bourke-White

1893 — 1983 | Germany

Marianne Brandt

1969 | United States

Nao Bustamante

1926 — 2016 | Italy

Carla Cerati

1919 — 2003 | Perú

Julia Chambi López

1970 | Sweden

Loulou Cherinet

1962 | Russia

Olga Chernysheva

1957 | Tunisia

Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza

1902 — 2004 | France

Denise Colomb

1958 — 2005 | Guatemala

Rosa Elena Curruchich

1957 | Argentina

Claudia del Río

1959 | Pays-Bas

Rineke Dijkstra

1974 | France

documentation céline duval (doc-cd)

1942 | Argentina

Diana Dowek

1941 — 2016 | Malaysia

Nirmala Dutt Shanmughalingam

1969 | Myanmar

Chaw Ei Thein

1942 | Panama

Sandra Eleta

1962 | Cameroon

Angèle Etoundi Essamba

1908 — Germany | 2000 — France

Gisèle Freund

1957 | Mexico

Flor Garduño

1959 | Argentina

Mónica Giron

1965 | Australia

Julie Gough

1948 | Israel

Haya Graetz-Ran

1940 | United States

Nancy Grossman

1908 — Germany | 1994 — Israel

Liselotte Grschebina

1964 | Palestine

Rula Halawani

1945 | United Kingdom

Maggi Hambling

1895 — 1967 | Japan

Haruko Hasegawa

1954 | Israel

Michal Heiman

1866 — 1944 | Denmark

Marie Henriques

? | Japan

Hiroko Inoue

1944 | Germany

Candida Höfer

1931 — United States | 2008 — Germany

Nan Hoover

1948 — New Zealand | 2014 — England

Alexis Hunter

2019 | Indonesia

Inkubator Inisiatif

1942 | Mexico

Graciela Iturbide

1969 | United States

Chantal Joffe

1964 | Bulgaria

Liz Johnson Artur

1864 — 1952 | United States

Frances Benjamin Johnston

1964 | France

Valérie Jouve

1954 | Germany

Karen Knorr

1897 — Poland | 1985 — Germany

Germaine Krull

1944 | Morocco

Joëlle de La Casinière

1939 | USA

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

1951 | Spain

Teresa Lanceta

1896 — Hungary | 1967 — France

Ergy Landau

1895 — 1965 | United States

Dorothea Lange

1955 | Argentina

Adriana Lestido

1964 | United States

Sharon Lockhart

1952 | Sweden

Eva Löfdahl

1962 — 2023 | Taiwan

HOU Lulu Shur-tzy

1948 | Egypt

Huda Lutfi

1960 | Germany

Vera Lutter

1972 | United States

Maha Maamoun

1926 — 2009 | United States

Vivian Maier

1963 | Mexico

Teresa Margolles

1912 — 2000 | Japon

Toshi Maruki

1964 | Lebanon

Rania Matar

1974 | Chile

Loreto Millalén Iturriaga

1907 — United States | 1977 — United Kingdom

Lee Miller

1947 | Japan

Miyako Ishiuchi

1933 — 2000 | Japan

Miyori Hayashi

1901 — Austria | 1983 — United States

Lisette Model

1894 — Czech republic | 1989 — Switzerland

Lucia Moholy

1933 | Belgium

Edit Molnár

1951 | United-States of America

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

1973 | United Kingdom

Rosalind Nashashibi

1951 | Israel

Michal Na’aman

1921 — 2007 | France

Janine Niépce

1930 — Sweden | 1995 — France

Barbro Östlihn

1942 | Germany

Ulrike Ottinger

1927 — 2004 | Brazil

Lygia Pape

1969 | Israel

Nira Pereg

1954 | Vietnam

Hanh Thi Pham

1907 — 2000 | Poland

Julia Pirotte

1974 | Ecuador

María Teresa Ponce

1953 | Slovénia

Marjetica Potrč

1961 | South Africa

Jo Ractliffe

1968 | Poland

Joanna Rajkowska

1967 | Spain

Tere Recarens

1911 — 1991 | Hungary

Marian Reismann

1972 — Switzerland | 1963 — Germany

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

1938 — 2015 | Uruguay

Nelbia Romero

1873 — 1966 | USA

Olive Rebecca Rush

1823 — 1899 | Japan

Ryū Shima

1948 — Lebanon | 2019 — France

Jocelyne Saab

1970 | Hungary

Eszter Salamon

1939 — Indonesia | 2024 — Netherlands

Laura Samsom Rous

1973 | Australia

Yhonnie Scarce

1941 | Germany

Deidi von Schaewen

1963 | United States

Collier Schorr

1944 | Mandatory Palestine

Miriam Sharon

1940 — Mandatory Palestine | 2022 — United Kingdom

Laila Shawa

1945 | India

Nilima Sheikh

1961 | India

Dayanita Singh

1906 — Russian Empire (now Lithuania) | 1998 — Lithuania

Veronika Šleivytė

1904 — Germany | 1999 — Argentina

Grete Stern

1762 — Great Britain | 1844 — United Kingdom

Sarah Stone

1914 — United Kingdom | 2000 — United States

Constance Stuart Larrabee

1910 — 1943 | Hungary

Kata Sugár

1968 | United States

Catherine Sullivan

1940 | Japan

Tokuko Ushioda

1965 | Japan

Tomoko Yoneda

1928 — 2019 | Japan

Toyoko Tokiwa

1945 — 2023 | United States

Gail Tremblay

1952 | Vietnam

Trinh T. Minh-ha

1882 — 1934 | United States

Doris Ulmann

1928 — Belgium | 2019 — France

Agnès Varda

1974 | France

Marie Voignier

1961 | Australia

Lynette Wallworth

1963 | United Kingdom

Gillian Wearing

1883 — 1962 | United States of America

Lora Webb Nichols

1909 — 2001 | United States

Eudora Welty

1967 | People’s Republic of China

Danwen Xing

1972 | Israel

Rona Yefman

1973 | Japan

Yurie Nagashima

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