GERTRUDE KASEBIER, The Red Man, 1898, 7.25x5.25" Photogravure from Camera Work Issue 1, January 1903, Printed 1903.

Growing up in the Colorado Territory, Kasebier had Native American playmates. Later, in New York, between 1898 and 1899, she made numerous portraits when the cast from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show visited her studio. The most famous portrait from these sessions is "The Red Man." The Red Man as Posed by Takes Enemy, Sioux Indian.
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Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934) was born in Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Gertrude was passionate about painting and drawing from early childhood. When she was twenty-two, she married Eduard. Kasebier longed to be an artist and after her children reached adolescence, she enrolled in the Pratt Institute to study drawing and painting. By 1894 she had added photography to her techniques and that year won two photography contests. On a yearlong trip to Europe she realized that photography was her vocation. While in Germany she studied with Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, the same chemist that Stieglitz had worked with.

She opened her own studio at age thirty-six in an effort to generate income and further her career as a photographer. She began exhibiting her photographs at the Boston Camera Club in 1896 and at the Pratt Institute. Kasebier became acquainted with Alfred Stieglitz who admired her work for its independent artistic expression and promoted it in his publication Camera Notes. He also organized solo exhibitions of her work at the Camera Club of New York. By 1901 her photographs had been exhibited in Paris and London, and she became the first woman elected to the Linked Ring, a group of art photographers. She traveled to Paris with Edward Steichen, and photographed August Rodin. She was one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession group, of which Stieglitz was the leader. The first issue of his Camera Work, released in 1902, contained six illustrations and two articles by Kasebier. Motherhood and portraiture were Kasebier's favorite themes. She helped elevate the photographic portrait to the status of an art form.

Fair. Tear through image. Scuffs and wear on print and mount. Tape remnants on verso.