Henry James
1906 · Platinum print
8 1/4 × 5 1/2" (21 × 14 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Alice Boughton
American, 1866–1943
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Photo-Secession (American Photography 1902�1910)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
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Twentieth Century Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942–1943
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Alice Boughton was an American photographer active in the early twentieth century, known for pictorialist portraiture and allegorical figure studies that emphasized atmospheric mood and artistic control over documentary clarity. Working primarily in platinum and gum bichromate processes, she created softly focused compositions of women and children that aligned with modernist pictorialist aesthetics while maintaining romantic, sometimes mystical registers. Her work engaged with the technical and conceptual possibilities of photography as a fine art medium during a period when the discipline was asserting its legitimacy within art institutions.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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