Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Photographer of enchantment
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| Other authors / contributors: | Brigman, Anne, 1869-1950, photographer.
Yale University Press, publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9780300263640
0300263643
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.
Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on July 27, 2021).
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| Summary: | "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"--Publisher's description.
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| Other form: | Print version: Pyne, Kathleen, Anne Brigman 0300249942 9780300249941
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