Work : Gain social status 6 April 1951 (First woman to photograph herself giving birth) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Work : Start Business 1979 (Penfield Books)
Work : Prize 1996 (Iowa Womens Hall of Fame)
American photographer, book publisher, and civil rights activist, who became the first woman to photograph herself giving birth on 6 April 1951. She is a contributor of over 500,000 negatives from the 1940s to 2007 to the archives of the State Historical Society of Iowa and has been called Iowas premier documentary photographer of the 20th century. In 1996 she was inducted into the Iowa Womens Hall of Fame. She founded Penfield Books in 1979. Penfield Books has published more than 110 titles. Bourrets autobiography, Pictures and People: A Search for Visual Truth and Social Justice was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award by the Independent Book Publishers Association in the category of Autobiographies/Memoirs in 2012. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less