Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography

Designed at the Nevada Museum of Art

Services: Exhibition Graphics, Print Design, Web Graphics, Merchandise

Exhibition Curator: Ann M. Wolfe

Creative Director: Brad Bartlett

Year: 2018

The design direction for Anne Brigman exhibition and marketing materials was driven by creative produced in the 400-page monumental publication. A thread that became the vision of telling Brigman’s story in the gallery and collateral was her own voice.

The assists I created sprawled: digital ads, print advertising, announcements, copy writing for social platforms, merchandising, and the exhibition graphics and trafficking.

Fun Fact: Since Brigman’s work was linked to the Sierra Nevada, my home, I became intrigued and actually went and found many of the vistas that were attributed to “unknown” in her titles.

About the Exhibition: This major retrospective exhibition rediscovered and celebrates the work of Anne Brigman (1869-1950), who is best known for her iconic landscape photographs made in the early 1900s depicting herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada. Brigman’s photography was considered radical for its time. To objectify her own nude body as the subject of her photographs at the turn of the twentieth century was groundbreaking; to do so outdoors in a near-desolate wilderness setting was revolutionary.

The power of Anne Brigman’s words and her persona helped to drive the creative direction of the social media campaign. This concept was then carried through into the merchandise to support the exhibition and publication.