[Female Nude Standing on Large Rock Over a Lake]

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[Female Nude Standing on Large Rock Over a Lake]

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Anne W. Brigman

American Photographer · 1869–1950

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Born in Hawaii, Anne Brigman moved to California when she was sixteen years old. Trained as a painter, she turned to photography in 1902. "[S]lim, hearty, unaffected women of early maturity living a hardy out-of-door life in high boots and jeans, toughened to wind and sun" were Brigman's favored subjects, and she photographed them nude in the landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern Ca

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Date: 1923
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

As a Pictorialist artist, Brigman favored a poetic rather than a clearly descriptive approach to landscape, emphasizing formal elegance, elusive symbolism, and craftsmanship. Her romantic, soft-focus work celebrates a spiritual communion between humans and nature, as in this study of a nude figure enveloped within the gentle, undulating forms of her lakeside surroundings.

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