National Photography Month~ Day 17

Untitled (also known as The Breeze) by Anne Brigman

1918 / Gelatin silver print / 9 3/4″x7 3/4″ / Various collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

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Brigman was one of the first women to photograph nudes in a wilderness landscape. Her images deliberately resemble charcoal drawings, as she sought to capture the spirit of her subject rather than a faithful reproduction.
~Smithsonian American Art Museum

National Photography Month~ Day 16

Portrait of Thomas Nathan Barnard by Nellie Stockbridge

1890 / Scan from glass negative / 8 1/2″x6 1/2″
Barnard-Stockbridge Photograph Collection, Digital Initiatives, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, ID

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Thomas Barnard, when he was mayor of Wallace, in a pose that has the mayor sitting sideways on an arm chair, cigar in hand, foot over arm rest and reading a newspaper. Her intent for this unusual pose is believed to be the desire to show a person with “class and authority,” but at the same time whimsical and approachable. ~Barnard-Stockbridge Museum

National Photography Month~ Day 15

Railroad Crew on Handcar by Evelyn Cameron

1910 / Scanned image from glass negative / 7″x5″ / Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT

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Using a new Graflex camera with a nine-inch Goerz lens, which she bought in 1905 for the princely sum of $225.50, Evelyn worked on commission for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, making the harsh land of eastern Montana look seductive to homesteaders.
~Encyclopedia of the Great Plains

National Photography Month~ Day 14

Ben and Bijan by Eva Watson-Schütze

1904-21 / Platinum print / 7 15/16″x6 1/4″ Various collections, including MoMA, NY, NY

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In 1902 she was elected to membership in the Linked Ring, an important London-based organization that promoted pictorialism, which emphasized artistic as opposed to purely documentary photography. The following year she helped found the Photo-Secession…in 1905 Alfred Stieglitz exhibited her work at his influential New York Gallery, 291.
~National Museum of Women in the Arts

National Photography Month~ Day 13

Henry James by Alice Boughton

c.1906 / Gelatin silver print / 7 15/16″x5 3/16″
Various collections, including National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, D.C.

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It is not known when she met Stieglitz, but it is clear he knew of and admired her work by 1902 when he included two of her works in the inaugural exhibition at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York City. This relationship continued for many years as in 1906, Boughton was appointed by Stieglitz as a Fellow of the Photo-Secession. ~Wikipedia

National Photography Month~ Day 12

Portrait by Belle Johnson

From the book The American Annual of Photography, 1917

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By 1914, Johnson had won over 30 gold and silver medals in various photographic competitions. She was a member of the Missouri delegation at the PAA’s Milwaukee convention in 1920, and three of her photos were displayed at the PAA’S 1930 convention. ~Wikipedia

National Photography Month~ Day 11

Yokohama Woman and Baby by Helen Messinger Murdoch

c.1913 / Autochrome / Royal Photographic Society Collection / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

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Murdoch decided to embark on a round the world tour, notably the first woman photographer to make such a journey, photographing on both autochrome plates and black and white negatives.
~Luminous-Lint

National Photography Month~ Day 10

A Little Lunch by Helen Plummer Gatch

From the book The Modern Way in Picture Making: published as an aid to the amateur photographer
Eastman Kodak Company, 1905

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Gatch made her mark at the local, regional, and national levels with winning contest entries and acceptance of her work into salons at San Francisco and Philadelphia. She joined the Salon Club (which opposed the Photo-Secessionists) and was involved in the organization of the Federation of American Photographic Societies in 1904. ~http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/

National Photography Month~ Day 9

Gateway to the Inland Empire by Sarah Hall Ladd

1903/1905 / Platinum print / Image: 6 11/16″x9 1/2″ / Portland Art Museum, Oregon

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Sarah Hall Ladd joined the Oregon Camera Club in September 1899, and, by early 1901, a number of her works were on exhibition in San Francisco. In 1903, leading New York photographer Alfred Stieglitz formed Photo-Secession, a group of elite American photographers that never numbered more than 105 members, and both Sarah Hall Ladd and Lily White were included among the select membership. ~The Oregon History Project

National Photography Month~ Day 8

Sea Bright, Dade & Jean by Emma Justine Farnsworth

Between 1886 and 1912 / Platinum print / 6″x4 1/2″ / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, D.C.

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Farnsworth’s pictures were reproduced most frequently during the 1890s. They appeared in the American Amateur Photographer…Photographic Times…and Sun and Shade…They were included in two deluxe portfolios of photogravures, issued on the occasion of Berlin’s annual International Exhibition of Amateur Photography in 1896 and 1897. Two years later, the Camera Club of New York also featured one of her gravures in its portfolio American Pictorial Photography I. ~Luminous-Lint