Anne Brigman (1869-1950) was a member of the Photo-Secession movement in America. Her most famous photographs were taken between 1900 and 1920, depicting nude women in naturalistic settings. In 1894, she married Martin Brigman, a sea captain. She began taking pictures in 1902, the same year that Alfred Stieglitz invited her to join Photo-Secession, a group of elite American photographers hoping to promote photography and elevate it to a new artistic height. Brigman was often the subject of her own photographs. She retouched her negatives with paint, pencils and superimpositions. Her intentionally counter-cultural images bring to mind la vie bohème and women’s liberation.