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A forgotten twentieth-century photographer’s wild portraits of women in nature
- BelleOfTheBall 6y agoWow, those are insanely good. “Infinitude,” 1910, in particular, looks like a painting, sort of reminds me of "Isle of the Dead" by Böcklin. It has that same eerie mood and feel. "Heart of the Storm" is a straight-up homage to old epic classicist works. I never knew old photography could be this visually striking.
- vanderZwan 6y agoThis is fairly common in early photographs. I think it is partially because many early photographers were painters originally and carried the insights of that practice over to the way they took photographs, and partially because paintings were the main frame of reference of medium to emulate.
- KineticLensman 6y agoI think the early history of photography is really interesting, in that artists and philosophers were arguing about it as long ago as the middle of the 19th century. To some it mechanised art in a good way and allowed 'mass production' - e.g. of portraits for people who couldn't afford an artist. To others this was of course a bad thing. Others liked the apparent objectivity of photography - 'the camera never lies'. I read Susan Sontag's On Photography many years ago and would love to see an updated version that takes account of our current image-saturated world.
- arbitrage 6y agoThe composition in Infinitude reminds me strongly of Maxfield Parrish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Parrish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Parrish https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Maxfield+Parrish https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Sear...
- kwhitefoot 6y agoThank you, lovely pictures!
- a_imho 6y agoDoes not work in private window.
- woadwarrior01 6y agohttps://archive.is/HuXQj https://archive.is/HuXQj
- r0rshrk 6y agoI think the images are failing to load in this one. Does the scraping take time ?
- tech-historian 6y agoHacker News has such range. Hardcore engineering news from around the web but also lovely excursions like this one. Surprises like this is why I love HN.
- acqq 6y agoA book: "Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography" (2018) Written by Ann M. Wolfe and Alexander Nemerov and Susan Ehrens and Kathleen Pyne and Heather Waldroup can also be previewed: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847862870/ https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847862870/
- eveningcoffee 6y agoNice (and surprising) to see pictorialist work here. I would say that her work is not forgotten but is not known by general public so well as for example Ansel Adams is in the US. Adams belonged to the opposite school of art whose many members actively opposed pictorialism.
- justaguyhere 6y agoplease tag it with NSFW, so people don't get in trouble
- mercer 6y agoPlease shut the fuck up. Most of the world isn't so sensitive, so it's up to the reader here to just not be idiotic enough to click on links titled "wild portraits of women in nature" or be retarded enough to be employed at a workplace where this is actually consequential. These kinds of 'think of the children' style 'I strongly suggest' comments are tiresome.
- catsdanxe 6y agoDo people actually browse the internet at work? Like read the news, hn, reddit, etc?
- akshaybhalotia 6y agoYou'd be surprised!