PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Anna Atkins 1799-1871
A friend of Henry Fox Talbot, Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She published Photographs Of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book with photographic illustrations, and some sources claim she was the first woman to create a photograph.
Bertha Beckmann 1815–1901
Beckmann was possibly the first professional female photographer in the world, With her husband, she opened a studio in Leipzig, Germany in 1843 and ran the business herself after his death in 1847.
