Place card shows Johnston holding a paint palette and leaning on a camera and tripod. Frances Fannie Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the earliest American female photographers and photojournalists. She was given her first camera by George Eastman, inventor of the Eastman Kodak cameras. She received training in photography and dark-room techniques from Thomas Smillie, director of photography at the Smithsonian. She took portraits of many famous contemporaries but, her most famous work is her self-portrait of the liberated New Woman, petticoats showing and beer stein in hand. In the 1920s she became increasingly interested in photographing architecture, motivated by a desire to document buildings and gardens which were falling into disrepair or about to be redeveloped and lost. Her photographs remain an important resource for modern architects, historians and conservationists. Illustration by William Mills Thompson, 1896. | |
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