Incantation
Anne W. Brigman American
Not on view
The ethereal woman in this photograph steadies herself on the side of a mountain, stretching her body and hands up to the sky. In March 1969 a version of this compelling image was featured in the first issue of the Metropolitan Museum Art Bulletin devoted to photography, appearing with the following quote from sixty years earlier: "In Mrs. Brigman’s work, the human is not an alien, has not yet become divorced by sophistication from the elemental grandeur of nature; rather it serves as a sort of climactic point, wherein all that nature holds of sheer beauty, of terror or mystery achieves its fitting crescendo."