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List of German women photographers

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This is a list of women photographers who were born in Germany or whose works are closely associated with that country.

Contents

A

  • Gertrud Arndt (1903–2000), created self-portraits from around 1930
  • Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), see United States

    • B

  • Tina Bara (born 1962), freelance artistic photographer
  • Uta Barth (born 1958), art photography
  • Ingeborg de Beausacq (1910–2003), fashion and society photographer in Brazil
  • Hilla Becher (born 1934), together with her brother Bernd, produced typologies of industrial buildings and structures
  • Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), see Netherlands
  • Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), chronicler of social life in East Germany
  • Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006), German-born American lesbian photographer
  • Emilie Bieber (1810–1884), pioneer who opened a studio in Hamburg as early as 1852
  • Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), of the New Objectivity movement
  • Ilse Bing (1899–1998), versatile photographer (fashion, architecture, etc.) from the 1920s to the 1950s, often using remarkable compositions
  • Anna Blume (born 1937), staged photographs and installations, often depicting herself and her husband Bernhard
  • Dorothy Bohm (born 1924), see United Kingdom
  • Jenny Bossard-Biow (1813 – after 1858), possibly the first woman in Germany to have made daguerreotypes
  • Marianne Breslauer (1909–2001), active in the early 1930s
  • Traude Bührmann (born 1942), writer, journalist, photographer

    • D

  • Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski (1870–1935), portrait photographer, educator
  • Minya Diez-Dührkoop (1873–1929), professional photographer with a studio in Berlin

    • E

  • Frauke Eigen (born 1969), photographer of the aftermath of war in Kosovo

    • F

  • Gertrude Fehr (1895-1996), did solarisation photos
  • Gisèle Freund (1908–2000), see France

    • G

  • Marie Goslich (1859–1936), photographer of social issues, etc., for magazines
  • Sophia Goudstikker (1865-1924), portraitist and women's rights activist
  • Liselotte Grschebina (1908–1994), see Israel

    • H

  • Lisel Haas (1898–1989), German-born Jewish photographer who moved to Britain
  • Esther Haase (born 1966), photographer, film director
  • Sandra Hastenteufel (born 1966), contemporary artist, photographer
  • Roswitha Hecke (born 1944), photojournalist
  • Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), see Argentina
  • Lotte Herrlich (1883–1956), photographer of naturism during the 1920s
  • Hannah Höch (1889–1978), pioneer of photomontage, participated in the Dada movement
  • Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000), artist, photographer
  • Candida Höfer (born 1944), highly precise large-format depictions of guest workers in Germany, interiors, zoos, capturing the psychology of social architecture
  • Walde Huth (1923–2011), fashion photographer

    • J

  • Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), initially family photography, then shots of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, from 1935 studio in Manhattan, portraits of celebrities

    • K

  • Astrid Kirchherr (born 1938), photographed the Beatles before they became famous
  • Barbara Klemm (active 1959–2004), press photographer
  • Katrin Korfmann (born 1971), fine art photographer
  • Monika Kropshofer (born 1952), painter, photographer
  • Germaine Krull (1897–1985), photographer, activist
  • Marie Kundt (1870–1932), photographer, educator

    • L

  • Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (1883–1962), photographer of rural individuals, collected in books that sold well in the Nazi period
  • Esther Levine (born 1970), urban and street photography
  • Loretta Lux (born 1969), fine art photographer known for surreal portraits of young children
  • Rut Blees Luxemburg (born 1967), photographer of night scenes

    • M

  • Melanie Manchot (born 1966), specializes in photographs of people in public, sometimes inviting them to undress
  • Jeanne Mandello (1907–2001), modern experimental photographer, studio in Paris, later moved to South America
  • Anne Menke (born 1967), German-born editorial photographer, based in New York
  • Hansel Mieth (1909–1998), see United States
  • Lucia Moholy (1894–1989), see Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic
  • Hedda Morrison (1908–1991), early photographs of Peking, Hong Kong and Sarawak, later lived and exhibited in Australia

    • N

  • Anja Niedringhaus (1965–2014), photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Margret Nissen (born 1938), photographer of architecture

    • O

  • Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), freelance photographer, educator

    • P

  • Helga Paris (born 1938), photographer specializing in East-German street scenes
  • Barbara Probst (born 1964), contemporary artist, photographer
  • Anne-Katrin Purkiss (born 1959), portrait photographer

    • R

  • Katja Rahlwes (born 1967), photographer of fashion and butts
  • Claudia Reinhardt (born 1964), contemporary German photographer
  • Ursula Richter (1886–1946), dance and theatre photography in Dresden
  • Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), film director and dancer who also published photos of the Nuba tribes in Sudan and, later, marine life
  • Frieda Riess (1890–c. 1955), German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central Berlin

    • S

  • Thyra Schmidt (born 1974), art photography and new media artist
  • Stefanie Schneider (born 1968), photographer of the American west
  • Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938), photographer in black and white
  • Else Seifert (1879–1968), architectural photographer
  • Katharina Sieverding (born 1944), self-portraitist
  • Annegret Soltau (born 1946), stitched photomontages of the human body
  • Grete Stern (1904–1999), see Argentina

    • T

  • Gerda Taro (1910–1937), early female war photographer, remembered for her coverage of the Spanish Civil War, especially Valencia, published in Life and Illustrated London News
  • Elsa Thiemann (1910-1981), street photographer who trained at the Bauhaus.

    • U

  • Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), photographer of erotic femininity

    • V

  • Christa Frieda Vogel (born 1960), documentary photographer

    • W

  • Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (1815–1901), Germany's first professional female photographer with a studio in Leipzig from 1843
  • Anne Winterer (1894–1938), studio in Dusseldorf, portraits, industrial subjects

    • Y

  • Yva (1900–c.1942), German Jewish photographer, multiple exposed images

    • Z

  • Bettina von Zwehl (born 1971), portrait photographer, based in London

    • References

    List of German women photographers Wikipedia
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