Agnes Beatrice Warburg (1872 – 4 January 1953) was a British photographer.
Career She had been encouraged to take up photography by her brother, John Cimon Warburg (1867–1931), who also worked with colour.Mark Jacobs, "Autochromes: Women photographers", Luminous Lint. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
Warburg's first colour photograph (1908) was created using a subtractive process Subtractive color and is preserved in the Royal Photographic Society collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London*. Warburg went on to exhibit with the Linked Ring and at the Royal Photographic Society, where she was a founder-member of the Pictorial and Colour Groups.Robert Leggat, "Women Pioneers of Photography" , A History of Photography. Retrieved 2 April 2013. As a result of her Pictorialist approach, she used photography as an art form rather than for commercial gain. Her results using the Autochrome process were of a remarkably high quality.Daniel P. McGoldrick, "Famous Landscape Photographers That Changed Our World", Bright Hub. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
Warburg died on 4 January 1953 at her home in Bramley, Surrey, where she had lived for the final seven years of her life. In her will, she gave of land on Box Hill to the National Trust.
Her nephew was the publisher Fredric Warburg. In his first volume of autobiography, Fredric credits her with providing crucial financial support for his company Secker & Warburg.
References
External links 'my first colour print' (1908) by Agnes Warburg Morning Bathe (1937) by Agnes Warburg