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Anne Brigman: Soul of the Twisted Pine 1905 + colour study (Autochrome) 1915.
I was first attracted to Brigman’s photography by images like Soul of the Twisted Pine (above). She made many images on this anthropomorphic, pantheistic expressionist fusion of art and nature - as you can see, carefully overworking her plates to create a very painterly marriage of photography and art. Born in Hawaii, she became enamoured of the work of the Photo-Secessionists after mov- ing to San Francisco in 1900 and seeing a copy of Camera Work (edited by the Photo-Secession founder Alfred Steiglitz). She was elected to a fellowship in 1906 (see news-paper clip above left), became a member of San Francisco’s growing bohemian community, was friends with Jack Lon- don, and made these Arthur Rackham-like nature-spirit images. By 1915 she was making Auto- chrome images like the detail (above right) and was acting as well as writing and performing her own poetry. In that year she exhibited her work with the experimental photo-artist Francis
Bruguière. Later, in the late 1930s she published Songs of a Pagan - a book combining her poetry- and photographs which was published in 1949, a year before she died age 81 http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/334829/anne-w-brigman-soul-of-the-blasted-pine-american-negative-1908-print-1909/
Frank Eugene: pictorialist Nude 1908 . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene
The roots of Pictorialism lie in the multi-negative work practised by Peach Robinson and Gustave Re-
jlander in Britain, and Gustave Le Gray and
https://juliamargaretcameronsecession.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/robert-demachy-timide-1900/