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Source: Wikipedia. Toggle navigation. Extended Deadline: February 11th Enter Here. Extended Deadline: February 11th. Enter Here. Alice Boughton and child, Summerville, Cape Cod All Famous Photographers. Alice Boughton. Alice Boughton 14 May - 21 June was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time.

Alice Boughton (- 21 June ) was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures.

She was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, a circle of photographers whose artistic efforts succeeded in raising photography to a fine art form. Her parents were Frances Ayres and William H. Boughton, a lawyer in New York. As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th-century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations.

Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior, and to help overcome that stereotype women became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "New Woman". Artists then, "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman, both by drawing images of the icon and exemplyfying this emerging type through their own lives.