Sylvie Blum's independent and striking photographs are uniquely her own, yet still exist in a tradition of women who photograph female nudes, a history that is not yet fully written-- we are certainly unsure of its origins, The English novelist Virginia Woolf speculated in her iconic book-length essay A Room of One's Own that "anonymous" was a woman, While she was thinking specifically of fiction and poetry, her idea also raises the possibility that some of antiquity's great sculptures were by women, and thus, our ideals of human form were shaped by women's hands, Photography was invented in 1839, and by the 1850s nude women and men were being photographed by established photographers (all male)as well as by these who are now unknown and might have been women.