Pictorialist photographer of motherhood and of Sioux performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Intimate
Serene
Labor & Domesticity
Fun fact
She opened her portrait studio at 45, after raising three children, and became one of the highest-paid photographers in New York.
How she made it
Pictorialist portraiture in soft natural window light, printed as platinum or gum bichromate prints that she brushed and manipulated by hand for painterly tonality and hand-worked edges.
Work
Blessed Art Thou Among Women, from "American Pictorial Photography, Series II" (1901); edition 34/, 1899
