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When Brigman died, she left behind a rich artistic legacy that included photographs, two complete poetry manuscripts, plans for a children’s book, an unpublished memoir, and linoleum block prints, among other works. In all her work, she expressed herself as an individual and as an artist at a time when women’s voices were often dismissed or ignored. This took courage, as Professor Nemerov notes. (...)»
Da exposição havida
no Nevada Museum of Art ,
«Anne Brigman:
A Visionary in Modern Photography»
«This major retrospective exhibition rediscovers and celebrates the work
of Anne Brigman (1869-1950), who is best known for her iconic landscape
photographs made in the early 1900s depicting herself and other female
nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada. Brigman’s photography was
considered radical for its time. To objectify her own nude body as the
subject of her photographs at the turn of the twentieth century was
groundbreaking; to do so outdoors in a near-desolate wilderness setting
was revolutionary. Although the term feminist art was not
coined until nearly seventy years after Brigman made her first
photographs, the suggestion that her camera gave her the power to
redefine her place as a woman in society establishes her as an important
forerunner in the field. (…)». Continue a ler.
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