FIGURE 4.18 Anne Brigman, Ballet de Mer, negative 1908, print 1913

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TitleBallet de Mer

Creator nameBrigman, Anne W.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1908

Creation date (description)negative 1908; print 1913

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsVintage silver print

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Wilson Centre for Photography, Washington, D.C.

Accession number93:4835

SubjectsDance in artPhotography, ArtisticFemale nude in art

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5. New York, 1910, and Its Aftermath

Kathleen Pyne

Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment

By 1910, Anne Brigman had a number of reasons to look eastward, away from her East Bay nest, which had provided her with a place to develop her photography and, with it, a sense of herself as one of the Bay Area’s major creative personalities....

Author

Kathleen Pyne

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.123-155

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00256.006

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Chapter subject tags:"291" (Gallery)Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946Brigman, Anne, 1869-1950Women photographers--United States--20th centuryArts and crafts movement--United States--20th centuryKäsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934Pictorialism (Photography movement)

4. Berkeley: In Utopia

Kathleen Pyne

Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment

After having crossed the continent, after the agitation, the excitement, the noise and turmoil of the great cities, after the deserts discouragingly melancholy...

Author

Kathleen Pyne

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.91-121

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00256.005

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Chapter subject tags:San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)Pictorialism (Photography movement)Brigman, Anne, 1869-1950Women photographers--United States--20th centuryWomen--Societies and clubs--United States--20th centuryArts and crafts movement--United States--20th century

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