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Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During the early twentieth century, Pictorialist photographer Anne Brigman regularly hiked and camped in California\u2019s Sierra Nevada mountain range, photographing the rugged landscape with her 4 x 5-inch view camera. She later recalled, \u201cI slowly found my power with the camera among the junipers and tamarack pines of the high, storm-swept altitudes.\u201d Toughened to Wind and Sun<\/em> explores more than a century of landscape photographs created by more than thirty women. Drawn almost entirely from the Museum\u2019s permanent collection, this exhibition celebrates a critical, vibrant, and underrepresented aspect of photographic history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the mid-nineteenth century, when photography first became possible for a wide range of practitioners, civil laws and social expectations shaped women\u2019s behavior, and relegated them largely to the space of the home and garden. Although women were active in photography from the medium\u2019s earliest period, the terrain beyond the home was the purview of male photographers. Images of hard-to-reach scenic wonders made by men continue to influence our understanding of landscape photography and punctuate its history. Yet, by the turn of the twentieth century, women were making frequent and significant contributions to this area of photographic practice. In Toughened to Wind and Sun<\/em>, works by Oregon\u2019s own Myra Albert Wiggins and Lily E. White demonstrate an early and expansive regional as well as world view, while Sara Cwynar, Wendy Red Star, and Penelope Umbrico push the boundaries \u2013 whether physical or conceptual \u2013 of landscape photography today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View the works in our permanent collection<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Wendy Red Star, Indian Summer<\/strong>, from the series Four Seasons, 2006, pigment print, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., 2017.25.1b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anne W. Brigman (American, 1869 \u2013 1950), Infinitude<\/strong>, 1915, platinum print, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Photography Council, 2019.19.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>","excerpt":"","slug":"toughened-to-wind-and-sun-women-photographing-the-landscape","image":{"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hounds-at-Tree-Lochsa-River-Valley.jpeg","id":7314,"extension":"jpeg","width":1200,"height":968,"filesize":434805,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":700,"height":565,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":108924,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hounds-at-Tree-Lochsa-River-Valley-700x565.jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"width":270,"height":270,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":22245,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hounds-at-Tree-Lochsa-River-Valley-270x270.jpeg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":620,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":129035,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hounds-at-Tree-Lochsa-River-Valley-768x620.jpeg"},"small":{"width":375,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":56774,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hounds-at-Tree-Lochsa-River-Valley-375x500.jpeg"},"medium-large":{"width":900,"height":726,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":172013,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hounds-at-Tree-Lochsa-River-Valley-900x726.jpeg"},"card":{"width":904,"height":565,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":134671,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hounds-at-Tree-Lochsa-River-Valley-904x565.jpeg"},"post":{"width":975,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":127231,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hounds-at-Tree-Lochsa-River-Valley-975x500.jpeg"}}},"all_day":true,"start_date":"2019-08-10 00:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2019","month":"08","day":"10","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2020-03-08 23:59:59","end_date_details":{"year":"2020","month":"03","day":"08","hour":"23","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"utc_start_date":"2019-08-10 07:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2019","month":"08","day":"10","hour":"07","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2020-03-09 06:59:59","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2020","month":"03","day":"09","hour":"06","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"timezone":"America\/Vancouver","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Exhibitions","slug":"exhibitions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":201,"filter":"raw","id":17,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/17","collection":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":290,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2023-03-28 10:28:29","date_utc":"2023-03-28 17:28:29","modified":"2024-03-07 10:38:06","modified_utc":"2024-03-07 18:38:06","url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/venue\/portland-art-museum\/","venue":"Portland Art Museum","description":"

The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. The Portland Business Alliance has installed way-finding signs which direct you to the cultural district, where the Museum is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is generally plenty of street parking surrounding the Museum. These spaces range from 1 \u2013 4 hours and can be paid for using a credit card or the Parking Kitty app<\/a>. There are also surface parking lots, and parking garages within 1 \u2013 4 blocks of the Museum. The closest surface lot is located at SW Main St. between SW 10th Ave. and Park Ave, and there are dedicated accessible and van accessible spaces. This lot accepts credit card or the Reef app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public transit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Getting to get to the Museum by public transportation is straightforward and economical. The bus and streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.\u00a0TriMet\u2019s Trip Planner<\/a>\u00a0gives you step-by-step travel directions from your location by bus, light rail, or streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n