Women often end up in the shadows, not least in the art world, but here are eleven female photographers who managed to break through and revolutionise the craft.
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An associated pair of Japanese Imari vases; each one with domed cover
150 GBP
66 FU - 9, Atlantic City - Ray K. Metzker
4,095 GBP
D-Day Landing, Omaha Beach, Normandy - Robert Capa
16,380 GBP
Summer Nights #2 - Robert Adams
12,285 GBP
A Nepalese, or other Asian, rectangular text with 15 leaf pages, all
50 GBP
Uranium Tailings #12, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada - Edward Burtynsky
12,285 GBP
The Card Players, after Cezanne from Pictures of Magazines 2 - Vik Muniz
20,475 GBP
A famille rose figure of The Daoist Immortal, Liu Hai standing on
200 GBP
Untitled (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in the Background) -
49,140 GBP
James Bond Goldfinger (1964) Japanese B2 first release poster with
150 GBP
James Bond Skyfall Shooting Stool, given out to the longer serving
150 GBP
New Orleans, Louisiana - Lee Friedlander
3,276 GBP
Martha's Vineyard IIIa - Aaron Siskind
3,276 GBP
Snow - Saul Leiter
4,914 GBP
Breakfast At Tiffany's (2001) BFI Anniversary Release British Quad
100 GBP
Stepping Stone Falls 9 C2M1Y2 - Matthew Brandt
5,733 GBP
The Junior Interstate Ballroom Dance Champions, Yonkers, NY - Diane Arbus
12,285 GBP
Untitled (tire sign) - William Eggleston
4,095 GBP
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine California - Ansel Adams
245,700 GBP
Les Menuires Quartett 2 #0567 - Massimo Vitali
16,380 GBP
Lisa Lyon - Helmut Newton
3,276 GBP
Wedgewood Blue - William Eggleston
8,190 GBP
Ford Plant, River Rouge, Bleeder Stacks, Detroit - Charles Sheeler
81,900 GBP
Salton Sea (red) - Richard Misrach
3,276 GBP
James Bond - 'Triple Bond' Original cinema display British Quad film
40 GBP
Untitled, #6097 from A Road Divided - Todd Hido
6,552 GBP
The Driver - Pierre Dubreuil
57,330 GBP
Gold Mine, Brazil [Backs] - Sebastião Salgado
4,914 GBP
West Sea Canyon - Darren Almond
24,570 GBP
Iceberg V, Disko Bay, Greenland - Lynn Davis
8,190 GBP
Kudzu - Ryan McGinley
12,285 GBP
Theodulgletscher II - Walter Niedermayr
6,552 GBP
On Signal Hill Overlooking Long Beach - Robert Adams
12,285 GBP
View from hotel window – Butte, Montana - Robert Frank
53,235 GBP
Linda Evangelista, New York City - Steven Meisel
4,095 GBP
Sand Dune, Death Valley, California - William Garnett
2,457 GBP
Henri Matisse, Vence, France - Henri Cartier-Bresson
5,733 GBP
An elegant Tibetan, or other Asian, metal alloy figure of Vajrapani
1,500 GBP
Yorkshire - Bill Brandt
3,276 GBP
Eleanor and Barbara, Lake Michigan - Harry Callahan
4,095 GBP
Greek Head with Orchids - Horst P. Horst
8,190 GBP
E.U.R. San Pietro e Paolo - Piacentini - Hiroshi Sugimoto
5,733 GBP
Untitled from Soliloquy - Shirin Neshat
12,285 GBP
Coney Island Bather, New York - Lisette Model
2,457 GBP
66 - Mariah Robertson
4,914 GBP
Untitled (telephone wires) - Harry Callahan
12,285 GBP
Untitled (cocktail on airplane) - William Eggleston
24,570 GBP
Children's Ward in the Korem Refugee Camp, Ethiopia - Sebastião Salgado
4,095 GBP
Spur Gears: 0034 - Hiroshi Sugimoto
4,914 GBP
4124-c - Todd Hido
3,276 GBP
Pierpont Morgan Library New York IV - Candida Höfer
40,950 GBP
Carnation, N.Y.C. - Robert Mapplethorpe
1,228 GBP
Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, after Eugene Delacroix from Gordian Puzzles
16,380 GBP
Deer Hirsch - Wolfgang Tillmans
12,285 GBP
Lake Tapps, WA 3 - Matthew Brandt
5,733 GBP
Back To The Future (1985) Advance British Quad film poster 'Coming
150 GBP
Brooklyn Gang, Coney Island, New York - Bruce Davidson
2,457 GBP
Gas Station, Palm Springs, CA, USA - Robert Polidori
8,190 GBP
Coat hangers - Sandy Skoglund
3,276 GBP
Juliet in White Chair - Sally Mann
4,914 GBP
It must be time for lunch now, New York - Francesca Woodman
4,095 GBP
Untitled (Empty House) - Gregory Crewdson
8,190 GBP
Gardens of the Palais Royal, Paris - Henri Cartier-Bresson