{"id":12878,"date":"2015-05-07T18:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=12878"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:09:05","slug":"frances-benjamin-johnston-a-pioneer-woman-photojournalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/frances-benjamin-johnston-a-pioneer-woman-photojournalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Benjamin Johnston &#8211; A Pioneer Woman Photojournalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Frances_Benjamin_Johnston_1896_w.jpg\" alt=\"Frances Benjamin Johnston (1896)\" width=\"576\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Frances_Benjamin_Johnston_1896_w.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Frances_Benjamin_Johnston_1896_w-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrances Benjamin Johnston (1864 \u2013 1952), full-length self-portrait, seated in front of fireplace, facing left, holding cigarette in one hand and a beer stein in the other, in her Washington, D.C. studio, January 1, 1896.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frances_Benjamin_Johnston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frances Benjamin Johnston<\/a> (1864-1952) was an American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and various photographic series featuring African Americans and Native Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>With her partner, Mattie Edwards Hewitt (1869 \u2013 1956), a successful freelance home and garden photographer in her own right, Frances opened a studio in New York City in 1913. Mattie wrote Frances love letters throughout their relationship, chronicled in The Woman <em>Behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864\u20131952<\/em>. Many early letters focused on Hewitt&#8217;s admiration for Johnston&#8217;s work, but as their romance progressed, they increasingly expressed her love.\u00a0 (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Self_portrait_by_the_American_photographer_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston-734x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Self_portrait_by_the_American_photographer_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Self_portrait_by_the_American_photographer_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Self_portrait_by_the_American_photographer_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston-768x1072.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Self_portrait_by_the_American_photographer_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston-1101x1536.jpg 1101w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Self_portrait_by_the_American_photographer_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston-1468x2048.jpg 1468w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Self_portrait_by_the_American_photographer_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston-1320x1842.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Self_portrait_by_the_American_photographer_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston-scaled.jpg 1835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Self-portrait by Johnston, dressed as a man, sporting a fake mustache and holding a bicycle, ca. 1890.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Related Link<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"The Frances Benjamin Johnston Exhibit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cliohistory.org\/exhibits\/johnston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Frances Benjamin Johnston Exhibit<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864\u20131952) self-portraits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1705,16,449],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-12878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-19th-century-artists","category-lesbian-art","category-lesbian-art-herstory","tag-frances-benjamin-johnston"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}