Remembering nude photographer Anne Brigman

December 3, 2011 /Photography News/ Born 146 years ago, on 3 December 1869, Anne Brigman is known as one of the first photographers to take the female nude in the natural landscape as a subject.  "Soul of the Blasted Pine," a self-portrait of Anne Brigman taken in 1908. Trained as a painter, she turned to photography in 1901. Soon she was exhibiting in local photographic salons, and within two years she had developed a reputation as a master of pictorial photography.  Brigman was one of two o...