Gertrude Kasebier

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American portrait photographer Gertrude Käsebier (née Stanton) (1852 - 1934) was a part of the PhotoSecession movement along with Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn and Clarence Hudson White and a founder of the Pictorial Photographers of America.

While studying painting in her late thirties, she shifted her interests to photography. With minimum professional training, she opened a studio in 1897, and used the proceeds to support her ill husband. She was a founding member of the Photo-Secession group along with Alfred Stieglitz, who printed several of her photographs in the first issue of his magazine Camera Work.

Using relaxed poses in natural light, emphasizing the play of light and dark, Kasebier let her subjects fill most of the frame. She was also noted for her printing process and ability to produce images with a painterly quality. She was the first woman to be in the Linked Ring and the founding member of the Pictorial Photographers of America. Motherhood is a central theme for her work.

The Visitor
1910
 

Girl with Large Hat
1895–1910


 

Dorothy, c1900

The Gerson Sisters
1906
 

Untitled (Woman trailing a shawl)

The Visitor
1910

Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz, 1902

Auguste Rodin in his Atelier
1905


 

George Benjamin Luks






Rose O'Neill, c1907

Harmony
1901

A Christmas Scene

The Picture Book, 1903



 

Lady with Mandolin in Garden
probably 1899

Girl in Satin Dress with Roses
 

Yoked and Muzzled – Marriage”, c1915



 

The Visitor
1910
 

Portrait of Francis Watts Lee
 

The Manger
1899
 

 

Portrait (Miss N.)




Indian Chief, c 1901






The Red Man, 1903

Portrait
 

Mother and Child, c.1900
 

Robert Henri, c. 1907