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Incantation

1905
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."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Incantation
  • Artist: Anne W. Brigman (American, Honolulu, Hawaii 1869–1950 Eagle Rock, California)
  • Date: 1905
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 27.3 x 17.0 cm. (10 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933
  • Object Number: 33.43.130
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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