1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1852–1934 · UNITED STATES
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
- Born
- 1852
- Died
- 1934
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1899The Manger
- 1899Blessed Art Thou Among Women
- 1898Portraits of the Sioux
WHY THEY MATTER
Leading Pictorialist photographer whose work is in the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress; promoted photography as a career for women.
THE LIFE
Kasebier took up photography in middle age and became one of the best-known portraitists of her time. She was known for her images of motherhood and her portraits of Native Americans. She argued openly that photography was a fitting profession for women. Her work belongs to the Pictorialist movement around the turn of the twentieth century.
Also born in 1850–1899
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia
1883–1976 · United States · Photographer
Imogen Cunningham
Sharp-focus studies of plants, bodies and industrial forms.
Magnolia Blossom, 1925Source: Wikipedia