Femeile-fotograf ale Sibiului din a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea: fotografiile Kamillei Ásbóth și ale Juliei Herter din colecția Muzeului Național Brukenthal

The role of women photographers has been downplayed in the history of photography, although they have been among the earliest practitioners since the 19th century. A small number of women contributed to the early history of photography, although in the late 18th and early 19th centuries some women in high society were knowledgeable about the science. The complicated processes used to take photographs were deciphered and used by women photographers, and their portfolios included a wide variety of subjects. The first women photographers’ owners of permanent studios in Sibiu, in the second half of the 19th century, were Kamilla Ásbóth (1838–1908) and Julie Herter (1838–1922). Their biographies are little known today, but the photographs they took, preserved in the collection of Documentary Graphics at the Brukenthal National Museum, show us a special world of which the two photographers were once part.