{"id":808,"date":"2008-10-01T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/10\/01\/gertrude-kasebier\/"},"modified":"2020-12-16T22:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:08:45","slug":"gertrude-kasebier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/10\/01\/gertrude-kasebier\/","title":{"rendered":"Gertrude K\u00e4sebier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A great American photographer<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly no fan of filmy, soft focus, photography on the whole, but that&#8217;s not to say I don&#8217;t like it when it&#8217;s well done.<\/p>\n<p>Gertrude K\u00e4sebier (1852 &#8211; 1934) was an American photographer who did most of her best work around the beginning of the twentieth century.  Her work is distinguished by soft light and great warmth and charm.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Kasebier01.jpg><br \/>\n<i>Portrait Miss N. 1903<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Kasebier02.jpg><br \/>\n<i>Portrait by window light.  Date unknown<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether the general fuzziness of her work is the result of poor technique, deliberate manipulation or simply caused by the technical limitations of the time.  No matter, the results work.<\/p>\n<p>While the standard writing on K\u00e4sebier is that she was a member of the Photo Secession movement headed by Stieglitz, stylistically she was very much her own person.<\/p>\n<p>A timely reminder that not all that is sharp is good, and that not all that is blurred is bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great American photographer. I&#8217;m certainly no fan of filmy, soft focus, photography on the whole, but that&#8217;s not to say I don&#8217;t like it when it&#8217;s well done. Gertrude K\u00e4sebier (1852 &#8211; 1934) was an American photographer who did most of her best work around the beginning of the twentieth century. Her work is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/10\/01\/gertrude-kasebier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gertrude K\u00e4sebier<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36325,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/36325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}