Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment

Author:   Kathleen Pyne
Publisher:   Yale University Press
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9780300249941


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   23 June 2020
Format:   Hardback
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The life and work of an essential photographer whose feminism and pictorialist images distanced her from the mainstream In the first book devoted to Anne Brigman (1869–1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the groundbreaking photographer’s life from Hawai‘i to the Sierra and elsewhere in California, revealing how her photographs emerged from her experience of local place and cultural politics. Brigman’s work caught the eye of the well-known photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who welcomed her as one of the original members of his Photo-Secession group. He promoted her work as exemplary of his modernism and praised her Sierra landscapes with female nudes—work that at the time separated Brigman from the spiritualized upper-class femininity of other women photographers. Stieglitz later drew on Brigman’s images of the expressive female body in shaping the public persona of Georgia O’Keeffe into his ideal woman artist. This nuanced account reasserts Brigman’s place among photography’s most important early advocates and provides new insight into the gender and racialist dynamics of the early twentieth-century art world, especially on the West Coast of the United States.

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Author:   Kathleen Pyne
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.276kg
ISBN:  

9780300249941


ISBN 10:   0300249942
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   23 June 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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“Brigman’s photographs are extraordinary, with their one-of-a-kind strangeness born of a mix of nativist fantasy and feminist emancipation. Pyne is the perfect storyteller to bring this important American artist to life.”—Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University “Pyne’s empathetic, critical study of Anne Brigman explains how she was able to exceed the limits of genteel white womanhood to produce a more radical photography than her pictorialist peers.”—Wendy Katz, editor of The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle


Brigman's photographs are extraordinary, with their one-of-a-kind strangeness born of a mix of nativist fantasy and feminist emancipation. Pyne is the perfect storyteller to bring this important American artist to life. -Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University Pyne's empathetic, critical study of Anne Brigman explains how she was able to exceed the limits of genteel white womanhood to produce a more radical photography than her pictorialist peers. -Wendy Katz, editor of The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siecle


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Kathleen Pyne is professor emerita of art history at the University of Notre Dame.

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