Anne Brigman

Anne Brigman
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-22
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0847869296

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.

Anne Brigman

Anne Brigman
Author: Kathleen Pyne
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0300249942

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.

A Poetic Vision

A Poetic Vision
Author: Susan Ehrens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1995
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

A Planetary Lens

A Planetary Lens
Author: Audrey Goodman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2021-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1496225139

A Planetary Lens explores how women writers and photographers revise and reimagine landscape, identity, and history in the U.S. West.

Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham
Author: Paul Martineau
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1606066757

Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham’s work in over thirty-five years. Celebrated American artist Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) enjoyed a long career as a photographer, creating a large and diverse body of work that underscored her unique vision, versatility, and commitment to the medium. An early feminist and inspiration to future generations, Cunningham intensely engaged with Pictorialism and Modernism; genres of portraiture, landscape, the nude, still life, and street photography; and themes such as flora, dancers and music, hands, and the elderly. Organized chronologically, this volume explores the full range of the artist’s life and career. It contains nearly two hundred color images of Cunningham’s elegant, poignant, and groundbreaking photographs, both renowned and lesser known, including several that have not been published previously. Essays by Paul Martineau and Susan Ehrens draw from extensive primary source material such as letters, family albums, and other intimate materials to enrich readers’ understanding of Cunningham’s motivations and work.

Modernism and the Feminine Voice

Modernism and the Feminine Voice
Author: Kathleen A. Pyne
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520241893

Kathleen Pyne adds fascinating but overlooked material to the history of modernism in New York with this book, which accompanies a major exhibition of the artists' works." "With abundant illustrations and detailed discussions of each artist's work, this book argues that O'Keeffe was not the only woman artist in the Stieglitz circle worthy of our contemplation."--BOOK JACKET.

Lita Albuquerque

Lita Albuquerque
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0847843742

The first monograph on the acclaimed American environmental artist Lita Albuquerque, whose works belong to the Land Art generation, alongside James Turrell, Christo, Robert Smithson, and others. Known internationally for her temporary and ephemeral installations, paintings, and sculptures, Lita Albuquerque uses the most unusual and challenging of Earth’s surfaces as a canvas: Antarctica, the Arctic, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert, and South Dakota’s Badlands. She "paints" with a variety of mediums, including brightly clad humans or fabricated spheres, which form patterns over vast, wide-open spaces. This beautifully designed survey of her career highlights Stellar Axis, for which Albuquerque led an expedition to the South Pole to create the first installment of a groundbreaking global project. In addition to essays placing the artist’s works in the broader contexts of environmental art and science, Albuquerque provides personal reflections on her life’s work.

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art
Author: Alexandra Schwartz
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2010
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 0870706608

This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.