Annie Brigman
ANNIE BRIGMAN
“Sea Urchins”, 1920, silver print, ca. 1920s, 9 3/4 x 8, Signed.
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ANNIE BRIGMAN
“The Storm Tree”, 1912, silver print, 7 1/2" x 9 5/8". |
Annie Brigman, American, 1869-1950
Anne Brigman was a self-described "free spirit" who rejected society's notion
of a woman finding self fulfilment as a wife and mother, and instead found her
fulfilment through her artistic expression. Brigman had an intense relationship
with nature which figured prominently in her photographs. She frequently photographed
female nudes in a landscape expressing a oneness between art and nature. As a
member of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession group, Brigman employed the soft-focus
technique and elaborate printing processes favored by them. In order to achieve
a desired effect in a photograph, Brigman heavily altered her negatives, as well
as her prints, which she believed was part of her artistic freedom. Her photographs
were reproduced in Stieglitz's Camera Work and she is considered to be
one of the leading west coast pictorialists. For more information on Brigman,
see A Poetic Vison: The Photographs of Anne Brigman, by Susan Ehrens,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1995.
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