List of German women photographers

A

• Louise Abel, German-born Norwegian photographer
• Gertrud Arndt, created self-portraits from around 1930
• Ursula Arnold, street scenes in Berlin and Leipzig during the German Democratic Republic
• Ellen Auerbach, see United States

  B

• Tina Bara, freelance artistic photographer
• Uta Barth, art photography
• Ingeborg de Beausacq, fashion and society photographer in Brazil
• Hilla Becher, together with her brother Bernd, produced typologies of industrial buildings and structures
• Katharina Behrend, see Netherlands
• Sibylle Bergemann, chronicler of social life in East Germany
• Ella Bergmann-Michel, abstract painter, photographer, filmmaker
• Ruth Bernhard, German-born American lesbian photographer
• Emilie Bieber, pioneer who opened a studio in Hamburg as early as 1852
• Aenne Biermann, of the New Objectivity movement
• Ilse Bing, versatile photographer from the 1920s to the 1950s, often using remarkable compositions
• Anna Blume, staged photographs and installations, often depicting herself and her husband Bernhard
• Dorothy Bohm, see United Kingdom
• Jenny Bossard-Biow, possibly the first woman in Germany to have made daguerreotypes
• Marianne Breslauer, active in the early 1930s
• Traude Bührmann, writer, journalist, photographer

  D

• Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski, portrait photographer, educator
• Minya Diez-Dührkoop, professional photographer with a studio in Berlin

  E

• Frauke Eigen, photographer of the aftermath of war in Kosovo

  F

• Claudia Fährenkemper, landscape photographer
• Gertrude Fehr, did solarisation photos
• Gisèle Freund, see France

  G

• Marie Goslich, photographer of social issues, etc., for magazines
• Sophia Goudstikker, portraitist and women's rights activist
• Liselotte Grschebina, see Israel
• Julia Gunther, documentary photographer

  H

• Lisel Haas, German-born Jewish photographer who moved to Britain
• Esther Haase, photographer, film director
• Sandra Hastenteufel, contemporary artist, photographer
• Roswitha Hecke, photojournalist
• Annemarie Heinrich, see Argentina
• Lotte Herrlich, photographer of naturism during the 1920s
• Hannah Höch, pioneer of photomontage, participated in the Dada movement
• Marta Hoepffner, artist, photographer
• Candida Höfer, highly precise large-format depictions of guest workers in Germany, interiors, zoos, capturing the psychology of social architecture
• Sabine Hornig, photographer and contemporary artist depicting architecture and urban life
• Walde Huth, fashion photographer

  J

• Lotte Jacobi, initially family photography, then shots of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, from 1935 studio in Manhattan, portraits of celebrities
• Charlotte Joël, Jewish portrait photographer

  K

• Ingeborg Kahlenberg, photographer for the Dutch resistance
• Johanna Keimeyer, photographer, artist
• Annette Kelm, contemporary artist, photographer
• Astrid Kirchherr, photographed the Beatles before they became famous
• Barbara Klemm, press photographer
• Katrin Korfmann, fine art photographer
• Monika Kropshofer, painter, photographer
• Germaine Krull, photographer, activist
• Marie Kundt, photographer, educator

  L

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

  M

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

  N

• Cathleen Naundorf, artist and photographer
• Anja Niedringhaus, photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Margret Nissen, photographer of architecture

  O

• Hildegard Ochse, freelance photographer, educator
• Li Osborne, German-born British photographer and sculptor

  P

• Helga Paris, photographer specializing in East-German street scenes
• Angelika Platen, portrait photographer
• Bettina Pousttchi, German-Iranian sculptor, photographer, filmmaker
• Barbara Probst, contemporary artist, photographer
• Anne-Katrin Purkiss, portrait photographer

  R

• Katja Rahlwes, photographer of fashion and butts
• Claudia Reinhardt, contemporary German photographer
• Regina Relang, fashion photographer
• Ursula Richter, dance and theatre photography in Dresden
• Leni Riefenstahl, film director and dancer who also published photos of the Nuba tribes in Sudan and, later, marine life
• Frieda Riess, German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central Berlin

  S

• Eva Sandberg-Xiao, photographer in Russia and China
• Thyra Schmidt, art photography and new media artist
• Stefanie Schneider, photographer of the American west
• Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, photographer in black and white
• Else Seifert, architectural photographer
• Katharina Sieverding, self-portraitist
• Annegret Soltau, stitched photomontages of the human body
• Grete Stern, see Argentina

  T

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

  U

• Ellen von Unwerth, photographer of erotic femininity

  V

• Christa Frieda Vogel, documentary photographer

  W

• Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, Germany's first professional female photographer with a studio in Leipzig from 1843
• Anne Winterer, studio in Düsseldorf, portraits, industrial subjects

  Y

• Yva, German Jewish photographer, multiple exposed images

  Z

• Bettina von Zwehl, portrait photographer, based in London