Toughened to Wind and Sun: Women Photographing the Landscape
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During the early 20th century, Pictorialist photographer Anne Brigman regularly hiked and camped in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, photographing the rugged landscape with her 4×5-inch view camera. She later recalled, “I slowly found my power with the camera among the junipers and tamarack pines of the high, storm-swept altitudes.” Toughened to Wind and Sun explores more than a century of landscape photographs created by more than 30 women. Drawn almost entirely from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition celebrates a critical, vibrant and underrepresented aspect of photographic history.