Professional photographers are nearly all men?

Aside from Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz, Helen Levitt and Jasmine Star, I don't know of to many famous professional photographers.  It seems it's always the guys who make the top of the list.  Perhaps I haven't really fully explored this topic deep enough, however from the surface level it seems this way.  


Do you agree? 

I believe you could say that about most profession's. Reason I think that is there are more men in the work force than women! And then when time for a family come's around, the woman become's a mom and the man support's the family, well in an ideal situation. There is no reason why a woman can't be as successful in photography as a man.

Because I'm just in that kind of mood...

Don Fischer wrote: I believe you could say that about most professions. Reason I think that is there are more men in the work force than women! And then when time for a family comes around, the woman becomes a mom and the man supports the family, well in an ideal situation. There is no reason why a woman can't be as successful in photography as a man.

The 50s called, and they want their apostrophes back. An apostrophe denotes a possessive, not pluralization. Geez.

In general: OMG, I can only hope this was tongue-in-cheek.

Fact: there are now more women employed than men, at least in the US.

Your opinion: "a man supports the family." I don't even know where to begin with this.

Net: I'm not seeing how this was in any way helpful.

Jessa Layton wrote: Aside from Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz, Helen Levitt and Jasmine Star, I don't know of to many famous professional photographers.  It seems it's always the guys who make the top of the list.  Perhaps I haven't really fully explored this topic deep enough, however from the surface level it seems this way.  


Do you agree? 

A) Absolutely not.
2) Define "fame".

What does being famous have to do with anything? It does not necessarily denote quality. And perhaps skill at marketing, or at finding a niche. Jasmine Star seems to think it's okay to take others' work, and Cindy Sherman... well, don't get me started on that merde.

There are lots of females out there doing great work. Go watch CreativeLive to see some of them. Oh, and they have men, too.

I don't think about gender when I look at work, but if it (gender) matters to you, I would definitely encourage you to explore further. It seems to me that by your own admission you don't have enough data yet.

Its simply because men are stronger, and can carry those  heavy camera's and lense's around.  S'imply!.....

effron wrote: Its simply because men are stronger, and can carry those  heavy camera's and lense's around.  S'imply!.....

Do you need help dragging that woman back to the cave by her hair?
There are quite a few professional women photographers out there. Just because you do not see them listed as famous means nothing. Most of the supposed famous photographers, while they did good work, had some good marketing behind them. That is whether it was some gallery types, or they actually understood self promotion, which most of the earlier did not. I have an aunt who shoots professionally for various magazines  and makes a good living at it.

Joves stop making me laugh!! there are

Seems like there have been more men than women photographers, although there were some well known women earlier in photography such as Dorothea Lange and Berenice Abbott. 

That seems to be the case with other types of jobs too, while there are some types of work that seem to be predominantly female. And what I got out of Don's comment was that he was describing how it's traditionally been, and as he said there's no reason a woman can't be a successful photographer. In general there didn't used to be as many women working in jobs outside the home in the past, much less as photographers.

Now of course there are a lot of opportunities that weren't necessarily readily available years ago. I've done local hockey and I don't think there are as many women sports photographers or writers but there's at least one other woman in my area that I know of who shoots local hockey. It all seems to keep changing over time.

garyrhook wrote: Because I'm just in that kind of mood...

Don Fischer wrote: I believe you could say that about most professions. Reason I think that is there are more men in the work force than women! And then when time for a family comes around, the woman becomes a mom and the man supports the family, well in an ideal situation. There is no reason why a woman can't be as successful in photography as a man.

The 50s called, and they want their apostrophes back. An apostrophe denotes a possessive, not pluralization. Geez.

In general: OMG, I can only hope this was tongue-in-cheek.

Fact: there are now more women employed than men, at least in the US.

Your opinion: "a man supports the family." I don't even know where to begin with this.

Net: I'm not seeing how this was in any way helpful.

Don't know what to tell you. I was educated in the American school system. PE was my favorite subject! In my time it was called gym!

I think if you dug more, you would find more woman professional photographers.  

Foggy wrote: I think if you dug more, you would find more woman professional photographers.  

I hope Gary doesn't see this....You probably meant "women" photographers.......

effron wrote:

Foggy wrote: I think if you dug more, you would find more woman professional photographers.  

I hope Gary doesn't see this....You probably meant "women" photographers.......

LMAO  it was late and I had a few in me at the time! 

Don't forget Sally Mann  

effron wrote:

Foggy wrote: I think if you dug more, you would find more woman professional photographers.  

I hope Gary doesn't see this....You probably meant "women" photographers.......

Um, because guys like taking photos of girls

Roblane wrote: Um, because guys like taking photos of girls

Especially at the beach, and other swimming holes.