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A look at one of the first feminist artists, Pictorialist
photographer Anne Brigman, best known for her iconic landscape
photographs made in the early 1900s depicting female nudes outdoors
in rugged northern California. This main volume of a previously
published slipcased edition is the catalogue of the major
retrospective exhibition that took place in 2018 at the Nevada
Museum of Art, and remains the first comprehensive book to
chronicle the photography of Anne W. Brigman (1869-1950), one of
the most important of all American women photographers. This
monumental publication rediscovers and celebrates the work of
Brigman, whose photography was considered radical for its time. For
Brigman to objectify her own nude body as the subject of her
photographs in the turn of the 20th century was groundbreaking; to
do so outdoors in a near-desolate wilderness setting was
revolutionary. Brigman's significance spanned both coasts: in
northern California, where she lived, she was known as a poet, a
critic, and a member of the Pictorialist photography movement,
whose practitioners employed various methods of manipulation to
achieve images that were considered beautiful and romantic. On the
east coast, her work was promoted by Alfred Stieglitz, who
published her photographs in Camera Work and elected her as a
Fellow of the prestigious Photo-Secession. The beautifully produced
large-format book is devoted to Brigman's entire career, covering
such topics as Brigman's work within the contexts of the California
Arts & Crafts movement and New York Modernism; her relationship
to High Sierra mountaineering and early 20th-century poetry; and
the relevance of her work to contemporary conversations regarding
gendered landscapes of the American frontier.
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