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The Manger

The Manger

Artist/Maker (American, 1852–1934)
Date1901
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (21 × 14.9 cm)
Credit LineFriends of Art Fund
Object number1980.74
Status
On view
More Information
Käsebier opened a portrait studio on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1898. She insisted, "I earn my own money. I pay my own bills. I carry my own license." She dispensed with decorative backdrops and props to distinguish her work from commercial portrait photographers. She was a founding member of the Photo-Secession in 1902 along with Alfred Stieglitz, and a leading practitioner of pictorialism—a painterly approach to photography, stressing the expressive capabilities of the medium.

In 1903 Stieglitz included The Manger, in the inaugural issue of his influential journal Camera Work.
Exhibition History
None of These Things Is Just Like the Other: Twelve Students Raid the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 13, 1994 - July 17, 1994 )
Religion, Ritual, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - May 26, 2013 )
Focus: Power, Agency, and Objectivity in Early Photography
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2021 - December 23, 2021 )
Femme 'n isms, Part II: Flashpoints in Photography
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 2, 2024 - January 18, 2025 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
  • On View
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