Pioneers: Photography by Women

Never-before-published images by 42 female photographers from Lotte Jacobi to Susan Meiselas

Women have been professional photographers since the inception of the medium, yet their work has received far less attention than that of their male colleagues. From the more than 15 million photographs stored in the Dutch National Archives in The Hague, the editors of Pioneers: Photography by Women selected a compilation of more than 200 images by 42 female photographers created between 1859 and 199...