Exhibitions/ Selected Artworks

The New Woman Behind the Camera

At The Met Fifth Avenue
July 2–October 3, 2021

Exhibition Objects


189 Objects

Annie Mae Merriweather

Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894–1978)

Date: 1935 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1974.541.5

Martha Graham - Lamentation

Barbara Morgan (American, 1900–1992)

Date: 1935 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1974.603.1

Ethel Waters, Carson McCullers, and Julie Harris at the Opening Night Party for "The Member of The Wedding," New York City

Ruth Orkin (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1921–1985 New York)

Date: 1950 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1980.1006.1

[Album Page 1: Financial District, Broadway and Wall Street Vicinity, Manhattan]

Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)

Date: 1929 Medium: Gelatin silver prints Accession Number: 1984.1097.9–.18

László Moholy-Nagy

Lucia Moholy (British (born Austria-Hungary), 1894–1989)

Date: 1925–26 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1987.1100.69

Calisthenics in the Stadium, Olympic Games, Berlin

Leni Riefenstahl (German, 1902–2003)

Date: 1936 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1987.1100.94

Pétrole Hahn

ringl + pit (German, active 1930–1933)

Date: 1931 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1987.1100.100

Io + gatto

Wanda Wulz (Italian, Trieste 1903–1984 Trieste)

Date: 1932 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1987.1100.123

[Haircutting in Front of General Store and Post Office on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi]

Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910–1990)

Date: 1939 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1987.1100.260

Nude Study for La Cantate du Narcisse (1942) by Paul Valery

Laure Albin-Guillot (French, Paris 1879?–1962 Nogent-sur-Marne)

Date: 1939 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1987.1100.350

Katharine Cornell

Trude Fleischmann (American (born Austria), 1895–1990)

Date: 1939 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 1991.1222

[Savoy Dancers]

Lucy Ashjian (American, 1907–1993)

Date: 1935–43 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 2004.211.5

Sueño No. 1: "Articulos eléctricos para el hogar"

Grete Stern (Argentinian (born Germany), 1904–1999)

Date: 1949 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 2012.10

14th Street, New York City

Rebecca Lepkoff (American, New York 1916–2014 Townshend, Vermont)

Date: 1947–48 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 2012.427

[Boy with a Cat]

Dora Maar (French, Paris 1907–1997 Paris)

Date: 1934 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 2015.40

Crying Woman

Elisabeth Hase (German, 1905–1991)

Date: ca. 1934 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession Number: 2016.233

Frontier Nursing Service, Kentucky

Marvin Breckinridge Patterson

Date: 1937 Medium: gelatin silver print

New York

Helen Levitt (American, 1913–2009)

Date: ca. 1942 Medium: gelatin silver print Accession Number: SL.7.2021.15.2

Lieselotte Felger as "Die Wespentaille" in the Dance "Der Kreisel," Berlin

Lotte Jacobi (American, born Germany, 1896–1990)

Date: 1931 Medium: gelatin silver print

Fisherman's Dock

Olga Máté (Hungarian, 1878–1961)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Untitled

Marianne Brandt (German, Chemnitz 1893–1984 Kirchberg)

Date: 1930 Medium: collage of gelatin silver prints on paper

Tobacco Picker, Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Rosalie Gwathmey (American, 1908–2001)

Date: 1943 Medium: gelatin silver print

Street, Vienna

Edith Tudor-Hart (Austrian-British, 1908–1973)

Date: 1933 Medium: gelatin silver print

Adam Trujillo and His Son Pat, Taos

Marjorie Content (American, 1895–1984)

Date: Summer 1933 Medium: gelatin silver print

Mariette Pachhofer

D'Ora, Madame (Dora Kallmus) (Austrian, 1881–1963)

Date: 1921 Medium: gelatin silver print

Woman with Fan-Shaped Hairstyle, Fouta Djallon, Guinea

Denise Bellon (French, 1902–1999)

Date: 1939 Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait

Alma Lavenson (American, 1897–1989)

Date: 1932 Medium: gelatin silver print

Fort Peck Dam, Montana

Margaret Bourke-White (American, Bronx, New York 1904–1971 Darien, Connecticut)

Date: 1936 Medium: gelatin silver print

Fashion Photograph

Yva (Else Simon) (German, 1900–1942)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Dora Maar

Rogi (Rosa Klein) André (Hungarian, 1905–1970)

Date: 1941 Medium: gelatin silver print

Onlooker

Anna Barna (Hungarian, 1901–1964)

Date: 1930s Medium: gelatin silver print

Blind Man Walking, Paris

Lisette Model (American (born Austria), 1901–1983)

Date: 1933–38 Medium: gelatin silver print on newspaper mount

Johannesburg Social Center, South Africa

Constance Stuart Larrabee (British, 1914–2000)

Date: 1948, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Collaborators, St. Tropez, France

Constance Stuart Larrabee (British, 1914–2000)

Date: 1944, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Children of the Weill Public School shown in a flag pledge ceremony, San Francisco, California

Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)

Date: April 1942, printed ca. 1965 Medium: gelatin silver print

Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California

Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)

Date: March 1942 Medium: gelatin silver print

Photogram

Margaret De Patta (American, 1903–1964)

Date: 1939 Medium: gelatin silver print

Nude

Yvonne Chevalier

Date: 1929 Medium: gelatin silver print

Gret Palucca

Charlotte Rudolph (German, 1896–1983)

Date: 1925 Medium: gelatin silver print

Stairway to the Cathedral

Kati Horna (Mexican (born Hungary), Szilasbalhás 1912–2000 Mexico City)

Date: 1938 Medium: gelatin silver print

Night Shot, Berlin

Cami Stone (Belgian, 1892–1975)

Date: ca. 1929 Medium: gelatin silver print

Die Ringlpitis

ringl + pit (German, active 1930–1933)

Date: 1931 Medium: bound volume of 6 photographs, 12 collages, 8 watercolors, 6 texts, and 1 graphite sketch

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California

Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)

Date: August 17, 1936 Medium: gelatin silver print

Ballet "L’Errante", Paris

Ilse Bing (German, 1899–1998)

Date: 1933 Medium: gelatin silver print

Woodbury Soap

Margaret Watkins (Canadian, 1884–1969)

Date: 1924 Medium: palladium print

Photogram

Bernice Kolko, American (b. Poland, (1905–1970))

Date: ca. 1944 Medium: gelatin silver print

Model outside the Rose Pauson House, outtake from "Flight to the Valley of the Sun," Harper's Bazaar (January 1942)

Louise Dahl-Wolfe (American, 1895–1989)

Date: 1942 Medium: gelatin silver print

Militiamen in a Trench

Kati Horna (Mexican (born Hungary), Szilasbalhás 1912–2000 Mexico City)

Date: 1937–38 Medium: gelatin silver print

Models Wearing Suits by Carolyn Schnurer

Genevieve Naylor

Date: 1945–46 Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait

Lotte Stam-Beese (German-Dutch, 1903–1988)

Date: 1927 Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait with Leica

Ilse Bing (German, 1899–1998)

Date: 1931 Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait with Camera

Margaret Bourke-White (American, Bronx, New York 1904–1971 Darien, Connecticut)

Date: ca. 1933 Medium: gelatin silver print, toned

Self-Portrait

Florence Henri (American, 1893–1982)

Date: 1928 Medium: gelatin silver print

The Sculptor Renée Sintenis

Frieda Gertrud Riess (German, 1890–1957)

Date: 1925, printed 1925–35 Medium: gelatin silver print

Lady Bridget Poulett as "Arethusa"

Yevonde Cumbers Middleton (British, 1893–1975)

Date: 1935 Medium: Vivex color print

Untitled

Ruth Bernhard (American (born Germany), 1905–2006)

Date: ca. 1939 Medium: gelatin silver print

Circus, Berlin

Marianne Breslauer (German, 1909–2001)

Date: 1931 Medium: gelatin silver print

Female Student with Beach Ball

Irene Bayer-Hecht (American, 1898–1991)

Date: ca. 1925 Medium: gelatin silver print

La técnica [or, Mella's Typewriter]

Tina Modotti (Italian, 1896–1942)

Date: 1928 Medium: gelatin silver print

Teacup Ballet

Olive Cotton (Australian, 1911–2003)

Date: 1935 Medium: gelatin silver print

Vermouth & Rye

Caroline Whiting-Fellows (American, 1905–1989)

Date: 1930s Medium: dye transfer print

Toni Birkmeyer Ballet Company in "Cancan," Vienna

Trude Fleischmann (American (born Austria), 1895–1990)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Preparing Yarn for Weaving

Wynn Richards

Date: 1948 Medium: collage of gelatin silver prints

Self-Portrait with Ursula

Annemarie Heinrich (Argentine (born Germany), 1912–2005)

Date: 1938 Medium: gelatin silver print

Street Vendor at the Chá Viaduct, São Paulo

Alice Brill (Brazilian, born Cologne, 1920–2013)

Date: ca. 1953 Medium: gelatin silver print

Woman smoking, Paris

Alice Hirsekorn (German, 1900–1964)

Date: after 1932 Medium: gelatin silver print

Uncaptioned photographs, in Riwkin and Elly Jannes, Nomads of the North

Anna Riwkin (Swedish (born Russia), 1908–1970)

Date: 1950

Young Woman

Annelise Kretschmer (German, 1903–1987)

Date: 1928 Medium: gelatin silver print

Changing New York

Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)

Date: 1939

Janet Flanner

Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)

Date: 1927 Medium: gelatin silver print

Abstraction

Billie Louise Barbour Davis

Date: 1953 Medium: gelatin silver print

Page spread from Amsterdam tijdens de hongerwinter

Emmy Andriesse (Dutch, 1914–1953)

Date: 1947

I.O.U. (Self-Pride) in Aveux non avenus

Claude Cahun (French, Nantes 1894–1954 Saint Helier, Jersey)

Date: 1930

Men Sifting through the Rubble, London

Thérèse Bonney

Date: 1940–41 Medium: gelatin silver print

Carmel Myers

Ruth Harriet Louise (American, 1903–1940)

Date: 1925–30 Medium: gelatin silver print

Anton in Detail

Ilse Salberg (German, 1899–1947)

Date: 1938 Medium: gelatin silver print

Street Scene, São Paulo

Hildegard Rosenthal (Brazilian, born Zürich, 1913–1990)

Date: ca. 1940, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait

Marta Astfalck-Vietz (German, 1901–1994)

Date: ca. 1927 Medium: gelatin silver print

Fashion Photograph

Yva (Else Simon) (German, 1900–1942)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Man at Printing Press

Vera Jackson

Date: 1940s Medium: gelatin silver print

Meeting Place Ladeira Porto Geral, Corner of 25 de Março Street, São Paulo

Hildegard Rosenthal (Brazilian, born Zürich, 1913–1990)

Date: ca. 1940, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Dead SS Prison Guard Floating in Canal, Dachau, Germany

Lee Miller (American, 1907–1977)

Date: 1945 Medium: gelatin silver print

Toni Frissell Photographing Three Models at a Fashion Shoot with Her Husband and Daughter in the Foreground

Frances McLaughlin-Gill (American, 1919–2014)

Date: ca. 1940 Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait, Tunis

Ré Soupault (German, 1901–1996)

Date: 1939 Medium: gelatin silver print

Xhosa Woman, Transkei, South Africa

Constance Stuart Larrabee (British, 1914–2000)

Date: 1947 Medium: gelatin silver print

Man Selling Lemons, Vienna

Edith Tudor-Hart (Austrian-British, 1908–1973)

Date: ca. 1932, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Yasue Yamamoto as Okichi in Elegy for a Woman by Yuzo Yamamoto

Eiko Yamazawa (Japanese, 1899–1995)

Date: ca. 1943–44 Medium: gelatin silver print

Yasue Yamamoto as Okichi in Elegy for a Woman by Yuzo Yamamoto

Eiko Yamazawa (Japanese, 1899–1995)

Date: ca. 1943–44 Medium: gelatin silver print

Yasue Yamamoto as Okichi in Elegy for a Woman by Yuzo Yamamoto

Eiko Yamazawa (Japanese, 1899–1995)

Date: ca. 1943–44 Medium: gelatin silver print

Yasue Yamamoto as Okichi in Elegy for a Woman by Yuzo Yamamoto

Eiko Yamazawa (Japanese, 1899–1995)

Date: ca. 1943–44 Medium: gelatin silver print

Yasue Yamamoto as Okichi in Elegy for a Woman by Yuzo Yamamoto

Eiko Yamazawa (Japanese, 1899–1995)

Date: ca. 1943–44 Medium: gelatin silver print

Light Bulb, Spring, Squares and Circles

Elfriede Stegemeyer (German, 1908–1988)

Date: 1934 Medium: gelatin silver print

Advertisement for Robert Burns Cigar

Elizabeth Buehrmann (American, 1886–1965)

Date: ca.1920 Medium: gelatin silver print mounted in press book

"Samarkand. At the street photographer," in Turkistan Solo

Ella Maillart (Swiss, 1903–1997)

Date: 1935 Medium: bound volume

"Ultra Modern Girl", from People in China: Thirty- Two Photographic Studies from Life

Ellen Thorbecke (Dutch, 1902–1973)

Date: 1935 Medium: bound volume

Young Woman in the Doorway of Her Room at a Boarding House, Washington, D.C

Esther Bubley (American, 1921–1998)

Date: 1943 Medium: gelatin silver print

Jeannette Warburg Altimus and Arthur Joseph Perrault

Florestine Perrault Collins (American, 1895–1988)

Date: mid 1920s Medium: gelatin silver print

Mae Fuller Keller

Florestine Perrault Collins (American, 1895–1988)

Date: early 1920s Medium: gelatin silver print

Eiffel Tower

Germaine Krull (French (born Poland), Wilda-Poznan 1897–1985 Wetzlar, Germany)

Date: 1928 Medium: gelatin silver print

Masked Self-Portrait (No. 16)

Gertrud Arndt (German (born Poland), 1903–2000)

Date: 1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Odile

Gertrude Fehr (German, 1895–1996)

Date: 1936 Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Potrait Collage

Adele Gloria (Italian, 1910–1984)

Date: ca. 1933 Medium: collage with gelatin silver prints

March of Dimes Dance

Hansel Mieth (German, 1909–1998)

Date: 1943 Medium: gelatin silver print

“Lotus” and “Shopkeeper in the vicinity of Hang-Chou,” in Hoppenot and Paul Claudel, Chine

Hélène Hoppenot (French, 1894–1990)

Date: 1946 Medium: bound volume

The ashes of Mahatma Gandhi Being Carried ub a Oricessuibm Allahabad

Homai Vyarawalla (Indian, 1913–2012)

Date: 1948 Medium: gelatin silver print

The Victoria Terminus, Bombay

Homai Vyarawalla (Indian, 1913–2012)

Date: early 1940s, printed later Medium: inkjet print

Chairman Mao Zedong Swimming in the Yangtze River

Hou Bo (Chinese, 1924–2017)

Date: 1956, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Magnolia Blossom

Imogen Cunningham (American, Portland, Oregon 1883–1976 San Francisco, California)

Date: ca. 1925 Medium: gelatin silver print

Bodies in Space

Jaroslava Hatláková (Czech, 1904–1989)

Date: ca. 1936 Medium: gelatin silver print

Nude, Frankfurt

Jeanne Mandello (German, 1907–2001)

Date: 1928 Medium: gelatin silver print

Workers on the New Uruguayan School of Architecture, Montevideo

Jeanne Mandello (German, 1907–2001)

Date: ca. 1945, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Three Women

Karimeh Abbud (Palestinian, 1893–1940)

Date: 1930s Medium: gelatin silver print

Pueblo Dwelling with Woman Holding a Bowl

Laura Gilpin (American, 1891–1979)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: platinum print

Indecent Exposure, "Please take me away," London, England

Lee Miller (American, 1907–1977)

Date: 1940 Medium: gelatin silver print

Another Pastime for Liberated Prisoners is Making Effigies of Hitler, to Hang, Buchenwald, Germany

Lee Miller (American, 1907–1977)

Date: 1945 Medium: gelatin silver print

The Freeloaders

Lola Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1903–1993)

Date: ca.1955 Medium: gelatin silver print

“Flight to the Valley of the Sun,” in Harper’s Bazaar

Louise Dahl-Wolfe (American, 1895–1989)

Date: January 1942

Flood Relief, Louisville, Kentucky

Margaret Bourke-White (American, Bronx, New York 1904–1971 Darien, Connecticut)

Date: 1937 Medium: gelatin silver print

“Life’s Bourke‑White Goes Bombing,” in Life

Margaret Bourke-White (American, Bronx, New York 1904–1971 Darien, Connecticut)

Date: March 1, 1943

Page spread with photographs by Bourke‑White and George Rodger, in Life

Margaret Bourke-White (American, Bronx, New York 1904–1971 Darien, Connecticut)

Date: May 7, 1945

"Residencia de J. M. a Barcelona" in D'aci i d'alla

Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (Australian (born Austria-Hungary), Dzieditz 1902–1985 Melbourne)

Date: Spring 1936

The Handcrafts Group Organized by Families of Shanghai Business Owners Making Chinese dolls

Niu Weiyu (Chinese, born 1927)

Date: 1956, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Female Pilot

Niu Weiyu (Chinese, born 1927)

Date: 1952, printed 1988 Medium: gelatin silver print

A Doll

Nobuko Tsuchiura (Japanese, 1900–1998)

Date: ca.1938 Medium: gelatin silver print

Tunisia

Ré Soupault (German, 1901–1996)

Date: 1939 Medium: gelatin silver print

The Races at Auteuil-Longchamps, Paris

Regina Relang (German, Stuttgart 1906–1989 Munich)

Date: 1938 Medium: gelatin silver print

Untitled

Sonya Noskowiak (American (born Germany), 1900–1975)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Sleeping Beauty, Berlin

Steffi Brandl (German, 1899–1959)

Date: 1929 Medium: gelatin silver print

Door

Tazue Satō Matsunaga (Japanese)

Date: 1938–39 Medium: gelatin silver print

Europe's Children

Thérèse Bonney

Date: 1943 Medium: bound volume

Wounded Russian Prisoners being Brought in from Karelian Front

Thérèse Bonney

Date: 1939 Medium: gelatin silver print

Campesinos

Tina Modotti (Italian, 1896–1942)

Date: 1926 Medium: gelatin silver print

Model Natalie Nickerson Paine Wearing a Bikini in Montego Bay, Jamaica

Toni Frissell (American, 1907–1988)

Date: 1946 Medium: gelatin silver print

William A. Campbell and Thurston L. Gaines, Members of the 332nd Fighter Group in Ramitelli, Italy

Toni Frissell (American, 1907–1988)

Date: 1945 Medium: gelatin silver print

"Photo Fighter," in True Comics

Thérèse Bonney

Date: July 1944

Ginza 4 Chome P.X.

Tsuneko Sasamoto (Japanese, born 1914)

Date: 1946, printed 1993 Medium: gelatin silver print

Woman Selling Her and Her Husband's Poetry Books (Street Snapshot in Tokyo)

Tsuneko Sasamoto (Japanese, born 1914)

Date: ca. 1950–53, printed 1993 Medium: gelatin silver print

Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov’s October

Valentina Kulagina (Russian, 1902–1987)

Date: 1930 Medium: book cover maquettte with collage of cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints, gouache, and ink on paper

Spoons

Vêra Gabrielová (Czech, 1919–2002)

Date: 1935–36 Medium: gelatin silver print

Homai Vyarawalla Photographing Ganesh Chaturthi at Chowpatty Beach, Bombay

Unknown

Date: late 1930s, printed later Medium: inkjet print

Diana Wynyard

Dorothy Wilding

Date: 1937 Medium: chlorobromide print on tissue and card

Young Woman from the Guttach Valley, Black Forest

Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (German, 1883–1962)

Date: before 1934 Medium: gelatin silver print

Serge Lifar, The Spirit of the Rose

Annemarie Heinrich (Argentine (born Germany), 1912–2005)

Date: 1935 Medium: gelatin silver print

Tsuneko Sasamoto, Tokyo

Unknown

Date: 1940, printed 2020 Medium: inkjet print

Study for The Nude

Germaine Krull (French (born Poland), Wilda-Poznan 1897–1985 Wetzlar, Germany)

Date: 1924 Medium: gelatin silver print

Marion Post Wolcott on assignment, Montgomery County, Maryland

Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915–1985)

Date: 1940 Medium: gelatin silver print

Jean Cocteau

Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)

Date: 1926 Medium: gelatin silver print

André Malraux

Germaine Krull (French (born Poland), Wilda-Poznan 1897–1985 Wetzlar, Germany)

Date: 1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Pamela Carme

Yvonne Gregory (British, 1889–1970)

Date: ca. 1928 Medium: gelatin silver print

Alban Berg

Trude Fleischmann (American (born Austria), 1895–1990)

Date: ca. 1934 Medium: gelatin silver print

Hilda Watson (née Gardiner) and Mary Spencer Watson

Helen Muspratt (British, 1907–2001)

Date: ca.1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Tsuneko Sasamoto (Japanese, born 1914)

Date: 1953 Medium: inkjet print, printed 2020

A Café, Brazil

Genevieve Naylor

Date: early 1940s Medium: gelatin silver print

São Januário Trolley

Genevieve Naylor

Date: early 1940s Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait

Elfriede Stegemeyer (German, 1908–1988)

Date: 1933 Medium: gelatin silver print

Worker

Eva Besnyö (Dutch (born Hungary), 1910–2003)

Date: ca. 1930 Medium: gelatin silver print

Translucent Hat

Lillian Bassman (American, Brooklyn, New York 1917–2012 New York)

Date: ca. 1950 Medium: gelatin silver print

Street, London

Edith Tudor-Hart (Austrian-British, 1908–1973)

Date: 1940s, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Perfume Advertisement for Maggy Rouff

Jeanne Mandello (German, 1907–2001)

Date: ca.1935–38, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Florestine Perrault Collins

Florestine Perrault Collins (American, 1895–1988)

Date: 1920s Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait with Headband (variant), Lee Miller Studios Inc., New York

Lee Miller (American, 1907–1977)

Date: 1932 Medium: gelatin silver print

Full of Life

Okanoue Toshiko (Japanese, born Kōchi, 1928)

Date: 1954 Medium: collage on paper

Family of a Kolkhoz Farmer

Elizaveta Ignatovich (Russian, 1903–1983)

Date: 1930s Medium: gelatin silver print

Outtake from "Young Suit Look - Junior Fashions," Vogue (September 1946)

Frances McLaughlin-Gill (American, 1919–2014)

Date: 1946 Medium: gelatin silver print

In Her Own Prison

Lola Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1903–1993)

Date: ca. 1950 Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait, Montevideo

Jeanne Mandello (German, 1907–2001)

Date: ca. 1942–43, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Hebrew Watermelon

Liselotte Grschebina (Israeli (born Germany), 1908–1994)

Date: ca. 1935 Medium: Gelatin silver print

The Victory Parade b they Allied Forces in India Marking the End of the Second World War, Connaught Place, New Delhi

Homai Vyarawalla (Indian, 1913–2012)

Date: 1945 Medium: gelatin silver print

Students at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of the Arts, Bombay

Homai Vyarawalla (Indian, 1913–2012)

Date: late 1930s, printed later Medium: inkjet print

Wicker Basket

Gerda Leo (Dutch, born Germany, 1909–1993)

Date: ca.1928 Medium: gelatin silver print

Woman

Dulce Granja Carneiro

Date: ca. 1957 Medium: gelatin silver print

During an Attack

Galina Sanko (Russian, 1904–1981)

Date: 1943, printed ca. 1960s Medium: gelatin silver print

Prisoners, Stalingrad

Galina Sanko (Russian, 1904–1981)

Date: 1943, printed ca. 1960s Medium: gelatin silver print

Behind the Front Lines, Workers at a Factory Evacuated from Ukraine to a Town on the Volga

Galina Sanko (Russian, 1904–1981)

Date: 1942, printed ca. 1960s Medium: gelatin silver print

Observation Post, The Fight for Hill N

Galina Sanko (Russian, 1904–1981)

Date: 1942 Medium: gelatin silver print

Xu Guangping and a Model Worker

Niu Weiyu (Chinese, born 1927)

Date: 1956, printed later Medium: gelatin silver print

Niu Weiyu with Camera

Shu Ye (Chinese)

Date: ca. 1960 Medium: Gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait

Claude Cahun (French, Nantes 1894–1954 Saint Helier, Jersey)

Date: ca. 1927 Medium: gelatin silver print

Self-Portrait with Icarette

Germaine Krull (French (born Poland), Wilda-Poznan 1897–1985 Wetzlar, Germany)

Date: ca. 1925, printed 1978 Medium: gelatin silver print

“Magpie Tuxedo,” published in Harper’s Bazaar (March 1932)

Toni von Horn (Mannheim, Germany 1899–1970 Ridgefield, Connecticut)

Date: 1932 Medium: Gelatin silver print

“Guernica! Almeria! Et demain?,” in Regards

Gerda Taro (German, 1910–1937)

Date: June 10, 1937

“L’Espagne forge son armée [Spain forms its army],” in Regards

Gerda Taro (German, 1910–1937)

Date: April 15, 1937