Modernist photographer of razor-sharp botanicals and portraits.
Serene
Intimate
Nature & Ecology
Fun fact
She was still photographing strangers on the street in her nineties for a project on aging.
How she made it
Straight photography with tiny apertures for maximum depth of field, plants lit against plain backdrops and printed on glossy gelatin silver paper. She cropped hard in the enlarger to turn a magnolia into pure form.
Work
Coverlet, 1843
Medium
Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined
