Frances Benjamin Johnston

I admire her as an artist who was able to capture stunning photographs of many of her contemporaries (Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain,Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Natalie Barney, George Washington Carver); as a photo-journalist who documented the lives of coal miners, iron and mill workers, American Indians, and the students and teachers at the Hampton Institute; and as a woman. who flaunted the dictates of her times by defining herself as 'lhe New Woman," one who lived independently and worked tirelessly to support herself through the practice of photography