Anne brigman photographer biography

Kathleen Pyne —

In 1916 Georgia O’Keeffe received from the admiring New York photographer Alfred Stieglitz a group of photogravures he had published several years earlier.  These pictures of nudes bound to dying trees or frolicking in refreshing mountain waters provoked O’Keeffe, in her own words, to an “absurd” level of excitement, and she wrote back to Stieglitz that they “almost took me through the roof.” The images that astounded her were made by California photographer Anne Brigman, already on her way to becoming an international star in photography.

In my book, Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle (2007), inom revealed how Brigman’s photography catalyzed the image of the free woman in New York’s nascent modernist culture that was coming to life in Greenwich Village around the issue of woman’s sexual and social liberation. Stieglitz, who was New York’s most powerful entrepreneur of the new artistic modernism, would ev

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Anne Brigman

American photographer (1869–1950)

Anne Brigman
Self-portrait of Anne Brigman (1919)
Born	Anne Wardrope Nott (1869-12-03)December 3, 1869 Nu‘uanu Pali, Hawaii, U.S.
Died	February 8, 1950(1950-02-08) (aged 80) El Monte, California, U.S.
Spouse	Martin Brigman ​ (m. 1894⁠–⁠1910)​

Anne Wardrope Brigman (néeNott; December 3, 1869 – February 8, 1950) was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in amerika.

Her most famous images were taken between 1900 and 1920 and depict nude women in primordial, naturalistic contexts.

Life

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Brigman was born in the Nu‘uanu Pali above Honolulu, Hawaii, on månad 3, 1869. She was the oldest of eight children born to Mary Ellen Andrews Nott, whose parents moved to Hawaii as missionaries in 1828. Her father, Samuel Nott, was from Gloucester, England. When she was sixteen, her family moved

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Kickass Women in History: Anne Brigman

Recently I read Prospects of a Woman by Wendy Voorsanger, and discovered a new Kickass Woman in its pages. One of the characters is loosely based on real-life photographer Anne Brigman, a passionate traveller and artist who was a leading figure in the Photo-Secession Movement in the arts. The real-life photographer was in California later than her fictional counterpart, but the real and fictional women share a common artistic style and personal philosophy.

Anne was born Anne Wardrope Nott to missionary parents in Hawaii in 1869. The family moved to California in 1885 when Anne was 16. She married a sea captain and went on voyages with him. Together they became part of the artistic community in California. They seem to have gotten along well up to a point – and that point came in around 1900, when they separated due to Anne wanting to devote herself to art rather than matrimony.

Anne adored California. She was a poet, an artist, an