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Description: Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment
~It is inevitable that this book, which has taken two decades to research and write, would benefit from the enthusiasm and advice of so many colleagues and friends. Over the years, as I contemplated the riddles of Anne Brigman’s photographs, Alexander Nemerov, Sylvia Yount, Michael Leja, Margaret Werth, and the late Robert Rosenblum encouraged me to...
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Acknowledgments
It is inevitable that this book, which has taken two decades to research and write, would benefit from the enthusiasm and advice of so many colleagues and friends. Over the years, as I contemplated the riddles of Anne Brigman’s photographs, Alexander Nemerov, Sylvia Yount, Michael Leja, Margaret Werth, and the late Robert Rosenblum encouraged me to follow through with a thorough investigation into Brigman’s photography. As my study continued, I had conversations with a number of scholars who enriched my research by providing crucial information and critiquing my ideas; for their good collegiality, I thank Christina Cogdell, Morna O’Neill, John Curley, Beth Gates Warren, Wanda Corn, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Ann Wolfe, Heather Waldroup, Susan Ehrens, Wendy Katz, Robin Kelsey, Mike Weaver, Anne Hammond, Anne McCauley, Steve Moriarty, Harvey Jones, Robert Edwards, Conrad Rudolph, and Henry Adams.
At institutions with key holdings for the study of Anne Brigman, I thank those colleagues who generously related their knowledge of Brigman and gave me access to her photographs in their collections: Drew Heath Johnson at the Oakland Museum; John Jacob at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Jeff Rosenheim at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rachel Andrews, Joseph Struble, Todd Gustavson, and Mark Osterman at the George Eastman Museum; Adam Ryan and Corey Keller at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Roxana Marcoci and Tasha Lutek at the Museum of Modern Art; and Michael G. Wilson, Stephanie Smith, and Elizabeth Cara at the Wilson Centre for Photography. At the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library, Marsha Stevenson provided wonderful support with obtaining primary source materials, and at the Santa Fe Public Library, Barbara Messer cheerfully tracked down innumerable books essential to my research. I am also grateful to the staff at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library for assistance in supplying me with document and photograph scans. This book is made possible in part by support from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.
Since the places where Brigman lived are at the center of this study of her work, it was important for me to learn about their cultures through immediate and first-hand experience. I am indebted to Debbie Fenton Shepherd, David Fenton, Kevin Wallace, Maria Parisen, and Robert Lewis, who facilitated my experience and shared their knowledge of the distinctive environments that characterize San Francisco, the East Bay, and the Sierra Nevada region around Lake Tahoe, as well as other subcultures of central and nortern California.
At Yale University Press, I had the good fortune to work with Katherine Boller, whose kindness and intelligence in guiding me through the submission and editorial process I have greatly appreciated. I thank Raychel Rapazza, Mary Mayer, and Heidi Downey for their excellent work in shepherding this manuscript through the Press, and I am grateful for the skill and acuity of Duke Johns, whose copyediting improved the text overall.
Most of all, I am beholden to my family for being willing to go with me on the journey that the creation of this book required: Nicholas Pyne Johnson, my source of many insights, philosophical and political; Nanette Pyne, my astute editorial advisor; and Paul Johnson, my most discerning critic.
This book is dedicated to an adventurer who has constantly inspired me in my life, my brother, Jeffrey George Pyne.
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