Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment

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 th...