Career
Born in Selma to a German immigrant father, Keipp began taking photographs as a hobby when she was 16. When she went to nursing school in the Northeast she began exhibiting the photographs she took during her summers at home in Alabama"s Black Belt. After graduating, she returned to Selma in 1904 and began her career as an Nurse anesthetist at King Memorial and Selma Baptist Hospitals.
Keipp"s photographs depict rural African Americans going about their normal routines in the Reconstruction South.
Number evident moralism or artistic propositions color her work, which occupies a place between documentary realism and impressionism.