Gertrude Käsebier

Marius de Zayas Mexican

Not on view

Among de Zayas's favorite subjects at the 291 gallery were the photographers of the Photo-Secession, including Gertrude Käsebier, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Clarence White, and Edward Steichen. Usually showing them with their cameras, de Zayas was able to capture their individual facial features and personalities, even as he stylized their figures and poses. Here, Käsebier (1852–1934), one of the grande dames of the group, stares menacingly from behind her large camera, her rotund body echoing the shape of her photographic equipment.

Gertrude Käsebier, Marius de Zayas (Mexican, Veracruz 1880–1961 Stamford, Connecticut), Charcoal and graphite on paper

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