Incantation — Anne W. Brigman, 1905

Anne W. Brigman made Incantation in 1905, high in California's Sierra Nevada, hauling a view camera to altitudes almost no photographer of her generation attempted. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which holds this print through the Alfred Stieglitz bequest, describes it as a poetic evocation of a high priestess of nature: a single figure gathered into the rock and weathered pine of the range itself. A year later Brigman became the only photographer west of the Mississippi elected to Fellowship in the Photo-Secession.

What makes it hold a wall is restraint. The tonal range is narrow and the composition leaves the figure room to breathe, so the image reads as atmosphere rather than subject, closer to a landscape than a portrait. It settles against warm neutrals, unfinished wood and linen without competing with the room around it.

Each piece is printed to order and stretched over a 1.25 inch solid wood frame, with the image continuing around the edges. It arrives ready to hang, no framing required, in three vertical sizes, from a twelve by eighteen inch study to a twenty-four by thirty-six inch statement piece. The source file is an open-access reproduction of a photograph now in the public domain, and the original print remains in the Museum's collection.

• Medium: matte canvas, stretched over a 1.25 inch solid wood frame
• Orientation: vertical
• Sizes: 12×18in, 16×24in, 24×36in
• Finish: monochrome reproduction, matte surface
• Hanging: arrives ready to hang, no frame required
• Artwork: Anne W. Brigman, Incantation, 1905, gelatin silver print
• Original held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection
• Printed to order, shipped from the nearest production partner