The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3424: Anne Nott Brigman
Engines of Our Ingenuity

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3424: Anne Nott Brigman

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 20263 min
  • Arts & culture

Episode: 3424 Anne Brigman brings a wild new dimension to the early years of photography. Today, Anne Brigman’s photographs.

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This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF, Houston.

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Ann Briggman was born Ann Knott in Hawaii in 1869.

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This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF, Houston. Today, Ann Bregman's photographs, the University of Houston, presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them. Ann Briggman was born Ann Knott in Hawaii in 1869. Her family moved to Liscatos, California when she was a teenager.

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There she grew up and married a sea captain, Martin Briggman. She sailed the seas with him for a while. Then she quit the sea and moved to Oakland, California. One account suggests that she had a serious accident at sea.

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Whatever happened, that move marked the end of their marriage. And there Anne Briggman took up photography. We know that she used a corona camera with 4x5 glass plates and a smaller Ansco camera that likely shot rolled film.

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