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This volume presents ten images plus a short essay and portrait of each of ten female photographers. The photographers are Gertrude Kasebier, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Barbara Morgan, Diane Arbus, Alisa Wells, Judy Dater and Bea Nettles.

Documentary about the life and career of one of the world's highest-profile and most sought-after photographers.

"The history of photography, and women's role within that history, remains incomplete - despite the fact that the medium was invented more than 150 years ago. Pulitzer Prize nominee Martin Sandler's Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography, with its commentary on women who have been lost in the historical record as well as those who have received their due, makes a vital contribution to the literature on women photographers."...

"Photojournalism is a demanding art, even more so for female photographers than for their male colleagues: Along with the perils and discomforts shared by every professional traveler, women all too often face other obstacles unique to their gender. But as this gloriously colorful celebration proves, the women of National Geographic have excelled behind the camera for almost a century, come hell or high water, documenting the world in arresting images...

Tells the life story of the photographer famous for her work in "Life" magazine. The biographical essay that accompanies the photographs also includes quotes from Bourke-White's writings. Many of the photographs are from the Margaret Bourke-White Archives in the George Arents Research Library for Special Collections, Syracuse University.

Vivian Maier's story - the secretive nanny-photographer during her life who becomes a popular sensation shortly after her death - has, to date, been pieced together only from previously seen or known images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life. During her lifetime she shot more than 100,000 images, which she kept hidden from the world. In 2007, two years before her death, Chicago historic preservationist John Maloof...

Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she would often find herself making -- not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself. Addario finds a way...

A photojournalist bored with daily newspaper work, Dianne Hagaman set out to do a project that would be freer and more complete. She began by photographing alcoholics on the Seattle streets, then moved to the missions where they seek food and shelter and to the churches whose members volunteer to work in the missions. Hagaman's understanding of her subjects grew more complicated as she started to reconsider the nature of religion in America more generally...

"The Chinese creation myth includes the battle between fire and water. As the battle continues, it shapes the lives and fates of every person. Some will know fire love, the wild passion that passes quickly. For others, there is water love, like the great rivers that defy place and time." "Tinling Choong draws on this powerful legend in FireWife to tell the fictional story of a fledgling photographer, Nin, who leaves her corporate job in California...