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English: This category includes photos of young women of the United States taken in 1899 and images of young women of the United States in 1899.
- Introduction
- Early Life
- Becoming A Photographer
- Publishing in Popular Magazines
- Later Years
- Achievements
- Notes
At the turn of the twentieth century, Gertrude Käsebier had accomplished many things--marriage, children, a stellar art career, and success in the magazine marketplace. She was one of the best known photographers in the United States. Her photographs of women and children hung in major exhibitions. Critics extolled the virtues of her portraits. In ...
Gertrude Stanton Käsebier was born on May 19, 1852, in a log cabin in Fort Des Moines, Iowa, to John W. and Gertrude Muncy Shaw Stanton. During the 1859 Colorado gold rush, the Stantons moved to a series of boom towns where John assayed gold and his wife sold baked goods to the miners. In 1874, on the rebound from a failed romantic relationship, Ge...
Käsebier's ability to discern the complexities of situations helped her achieve conflicting goals. She aimed to be associated with fine art and the upper classes but she enjoyed the relatively déclassé technical art of photography. She also wanted to earn a living, a desire that brought criticism from Stieglitz for sacrificing art to commerce, whil...
Käsebier came to specialize in making photographs of prominent people. When new illustrated magazines sprang up in the 1890s and 1900s due to innovations in printing images and improvements in mail distribution, she used them to find a new audience for her work. The December 1900 issue of World's Workcontained, for example, a portrait of writer and...
Käsebier continued to produce portraits in the Pictorialist style, but the purists of the movement, including Stieglitz, dissociated themselves from her because of her open desire to earn a living. Over the next decade the straight photographic style of Modernism replaced the vogue for the soft focus of Pictorialism but Käsebier remained well-respe...
Käsebier's life was an American success story, rising from frontier origins to fine art, from precarious means to financial stability. She rose to the top and maintained her position in a fiercely competitive field, artistically and financially, when her closest counterparts, Zaida Ben Yusuf and Frances Benjamin Johnston, abandoned art photography ...
1 Weston Naef, The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. pp. 387-88. 2 Alfred Stieglitz, "Our Illustrations," Camera Notes3 (July 1899): 24. 3Mrs. William W. Pearce to Frances Benjamin Johnston, October 11, 1897, Frances Benjamin Johnston papers, 1855-1956, Manuscript Division, L...
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [48] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War , becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline.
The history of women in the United States encompasses the lived experiences and contributions of women throughout American history . The earliest women living in what is now the United States were Native Americans. During the 19th century, women were primarily restricted to domestic roles in keeping with Protestant values.
A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred Seventy Biographical Sketches, Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women, in all Walks of Life is a compendium of biographical sketches of American women. [1] It was published in 1893 by Charles Wells Moulton. The editors, Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, [2] were assisted by a group of ...
