LIFE: Six Women Photographers

March 6, 2024

Event Details

Date: March 6, 2024
End Date: July 7, 2024

The Greenwich Historical Society is pleased to present LIFE: Six Women Photographers, featuring six prominent women photographers whose iconic work for LIFE magazine helped create modern photojournalism as it depicted a quickly-evolving world. On view March 6-July 7, 2024, the exhibition features more than 70 images by Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Marie Hansen (1918-1969), Martha Holmes (1923-2006), Lisa Larsen (ca. 1925-1959), Nina Leen (ca. 1909-1995) and Hansel Mieth (1909-1998)—the only women employed as full-time photographers by LIFE between the late 1930s and the early 1970s.

LIFE: Six Women Photographers has been organized by the New-York Historical Society.

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