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Highlighting the work of artists such as Anne Brigman and Imogen Cunningham, photography historian Susan Ehrens examines the manual techniques used by pictorialist photographers in the early 20th century to create softly focused, painterly images.
In her discussion, Ehrens explores the parallel evolution of pictorialist photography and the early 1900s arts and crafts movement, as well as the influence that Japanese and Pre-Raphaelite art and American tonalist painting had on these portrait artists. She also describes the West coast camera artists who celebrated nature as sacred and who photographed the human body in wilderness settings.
Ehrens is the author of “A Poetic Vision: The Photographs of Anne Brigman” (1995) and “Alma Lavenson: Photographs” (1990). She is senior contributing editor for Black & White Magazine, a periodical for collectors of fine photography.
A reception follows next door at the Gamble House; reservations are required.
The Gamble House, a national historic landmark, is owned by the city of Pasadena, operated by the University of Southern California and open for public tours.
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