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Gertrude Kasebier Biography

Photographer

Gertrude Kasebier was an American photographer known for her unique perspective on women and children. Her work had a profound impact on the photographic world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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“I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.”

“To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.”

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“I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)”

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Book:Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs

Source: Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs

“There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.”

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Author:Gertrude Kasebier

About the Author

Born: May 18, 1852
Died: October 13, 1934
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 5

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