Bayard Wootten: The Pioneering Female Photographer You Haven’t Heard About

This month is all about recognizing and honoring the works of women in all fields and industries, photography included. We already got started with 20 contemporary women photographers to inspire you this year.

But we’d love to add one more, an important yet mostly unheard of at that: Mary Bayard Wooten, one of the most important photographers of the early 1900s. She was way ahead of her time, facing and rising above the challenges that she faced as a single, divorced mother, an entrepreneur, and a creative in a male-dominated society. .

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2020-3-13 07:00

Источник: thephoblographer.com

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