Anne Brigman

The life and work of an essential photographer whose feminist images and pictorialists distanced it from the general public In the first monograph Dedicated to Anne Brigman (1869-1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the life revolutionary photographer, from Hawaii to the Sierra and California, revealing how his photographs were born from his experience of culture local and local cultural policy. Brigman's work has attracted the attention of the famous photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who welcomed it as one of the first members of his photo-secession group. He presented his work as an example of his modernism and praised his Sierra landscapes with female nudes - a work that then separated Brigman from the femininity of spiritualized upper class of other women photographers. Stieglitz later drew on Brigman's images of the expressive female body to transform Georgia O'Keeffe's public persona into an ideal artist. This nuanced narrative reaffirms Brigman's place among the most important defenders of photography and provides new insight into gender dynamics and racialist in the early 20th century art world, particularly on the coast western United States.