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WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHERS - IN HISTORY

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Ten Early Women Photographers You Should Know In honor of  Women's History Month , I'm shining a light on some of the many under-recognized and under-valued women photographers of the past. Sadly, there are way too many photographers who should have and no doubt would have been better known except for their gender. I know I won't be able to list as many as should be recognized, but here are some that definitely deserve more attention.   Sarah Angelina Acland – Europa Point Lighthouse, Gibraltar, 1903 Sarah Angelina Acland  (1849–1930) was an English amateur photographer who was credited by her contemporaries with inaugurating color photography "as a process for the travelling amateur". She experimented with color as early as 1899, and in 1904 she exhibited 33 color prints at the Royal Photographic Society. Her images inspired a new generation of younger photographers to take up the color process fo...