16 Facts About Anne Brigman

Anne Wardrope Brigman was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America.

Anne Brigman was the oldest of eight children born to Mary Ellen Andrews Nott, whose parents moved to Hawaii as missionaries in 1828.

Anne Brigman accompanied her husband on several voyages to the South Seas, returning to Hawaii at least once.

Imogen Cunningham recounts a story supposedly told to her firsthand that on one of the voyages, Anne Brigman fell and injured herself so severely that one breast was removed.

Anne Brigman was active in the growing bohemian community of the San Francisco Bay Area and became close friends with the Oakland writer Jack London and the Berkeley poet and naturalist Charles Keeler.

Anne Brigman used a shared darkroom on Oakland's Brockhurst Street.

Anne Brigman often lectured, and on one occasion, in October 1906, she summarized her philosophy on the Art of Photography at a well-attended event for Berkeley's Town and Gown Club.

Anne Brigman wrote Stieglitz praising him for the journal, and Stieglitz soon became captivated with Brigman's photography.

Anne Brigman was the only photographer west of the Mississippi to be so honored.

Anne Brigman performed as a poet her work and more popular pieces such as "Enoch Arden".

In June 1913, Anne Brigman was the subject of a feature article and extensive interview in the San Francisco Call, where she offered revealing insights on the liberation of women in a male-dominated society.

Between 1908 and the mid-1920s Anne Brigman frequently vacationed in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where she exhibited her photos at several seaside salons.

Anne Brigman's work evolved from a pure pictorial style to more of a straight photography approach, although she never really abandoned her original vision.

Anne Brigman found a publisher for the book in 1941, but because of World War II, the book was not printed until 1949, the year before she died.

Anne Brigman died at 80 on February 8,1950, at her sister's El Monte, California, home.

Anne Brigman often featured herself as the subject of her images, such as Soul of the Blasted Pine, for which she received the Birmingham Photographic Society's first silver medal.