Gertrude Stanton Kasebier

Kasebier was born in 1852 in Des Moines, Iowa. The start of her career in art followed from her first career as a mother. She studied painting at Pratt Institute, and after that she opened her first portrait studio in New York in 1897, she switched to photography, displaying the influence of her painting training in herPictorialist style. Her family and friends posed for her most celebrated series of photographs on the subject of motherhood.She exhibited her photographs in the Piladelphia Society exhibitions, and after Alfred Stieglitz reproduced five of her images in his journal Camera Notes in 1899. he following year, Kasebier and Anne Brigman wre the first two women to be elected to the British Linked Ring. Two years laer she became a founding member of Stieglitz's Photo-Secession group. Later on Kasebier broe with Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession in 1912 but continued to photograph until she closed her studio in 1929. Kasebier passed away in 1934 in New York City.

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