In 1932, the magazine Abel's Photographic Weekly included an article by Lilian Sabine in its Women's Page section about a young photographer by the name of Stella Simon, who was just beginning to make a name for herself in New York. Simon was described as ‘a Southern woman’ who although a ‘devotee’ of photography for several years, had not taken it seriously as a profession until the death of her husband in 1917. Sabine points out that although Simon did the ‘usual thing’ of studying photography with Clarence H. White, she also did the ‘unusual thing’ of making an avant-garde film in Germany before returning to New York to become a commercial photographer. Appearing alongside the ‘Among Us Girls!’ column that announced the advancements of women in the world of professional photography, the story of Stella Simon and her work was told in three parts in the September and October issues.