Anne Brigman (née Nott;1869 – 1950)

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

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

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

Photography[edit]

Soul of the Blasted Pine, a self-portrait of Anne Brigman taken in 1908

Brigman's photographs frequently focused on the female nude, dramatically situated in natural landscapes or trees. Many of her photos were taken in the Sierra Nevada in carefully selected locations and featuring elaborately staged poses.^[29] Brigman often featured herself as the subject of her images, such as Soul of the Blasted Pine, for which she received the Birmingham Photographic Society's first silver medal.^[30] Many of her other photos used her sister as the nude model.^[28] After shooting the photographs, she would extensively touch up the negatives with paints, pencil, or superimposition.

Gallery[edit]

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  The Dying Cedar, 1906

 
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  The Lone Pine, 1908

 
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  The Bubble, 1909

 
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  The Breeze, 1910

 
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  The Heart of the Storm, 1914

The New Yorker

Anne Brigman was an artist who helped shape American modernist, feminist, and landscape photographic traditions—and she was one of the first women to photograph herself in the nude. She would load her heavy camera equipment into stagecoaches to sojourn 8,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada, creating the images that made her a groundbreaking early-20th-century photographer. See more of Brigman’s spectacular, little-known work: http://nyer.cm/P5emv3H