Catharine Barnes

January 10, 1851 (age 62)

She was a strong supporter of women photographers. In 1890, she worked as an editor for the American Amateur Photographer magazine, contributing a column title "Women"s Work", and joined several associations which were usually reserved for men, including the National Photographers" Association of America and The Camera Club of New New York In 1892, she travelled to Britain to address the Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom in Edinburgh. She took up editorial work for the journal The Photogram and she illustrated her husband"s book Shakespeare"s Town and Times with photographs she had taken. Barnes continued to give support to women in photography, insisting their work should be judged according to the same criteria as those applied to mentor Catharine Weed Barnes died in Hadlow, England on 31 July 1913.

Catharine Barnes

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Education

She attended Vassar College but her time was cut short by familial obligations.

Career

She was a strong supporter of women photographers. In 1890, she worked as an editor for the American Amateur Photographer magazine, contributing a column title "Women"s Work", and joined several associations which were usually reserved for men, including the National Photographers" Association of America and The Camera Club of New New York In 1892, she travelled to Britain to address the Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom in Edinburgh.

She took up editorial work for the journal The Photogram and she illustrated her husband"s book Shakespeare"s Town and Times with photographs she had taken.

Barnes continued to give support to women in photography, insisting their work should be judged according to the same criteria as those applied to mentor Catharine Weed Barnes died in Hadlow, England on 31 July 1913.

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