Anne Brigman

by Ann M. Wolfe

"This monumental publication rediscovers and celebrates the work of American photographer Anne Brigman (1869-1950), who is best known for her iconic landscape images made in the early 1900s depicting female nudes in the Sierra Nevada. Brigman's significance spanned both coasts of the United States: in Northern California, where she lived, she was known as a poet, a critic, and a member of the Pictorialist photography movement. On the East Coast, her work was promoted by Alfred Stieglitz, who elected her as a fellow of the prestigious Photo-Secession. The ... publication includes a box...