Amalia López Cabrera (Almería, 1837 – Madrid, circa 1899) was a daguerreotypist and professional Spanish photographer.
She was born in a wealthy merchant family and she lived her childhood in Almería, on Posada street, near Francisco Javier de León Bendicho’s Lyceum.
In her early twenties, she met her future husband, Mr. Ludwik Tarszela Ski Konarzenski, the Count of Lipa.
The Count of Lipa opened his own photographic studio in Jaen, and when young Amalia noticed it, she quickly enrolled there and so became his first pupil.
She wanted to learn the mysterious world of the daguerreotype plates, how to make the silver solutions and, moreover, she desired to master the times of exposure.
Afterwards, the couple went to Madrid when Amalia’s husband was appointed to print “La Gaceta Agrícola”, a newspaper of the time.