Anne Wardrope Brigman (née Nott; December 3, 1869 – February 8, 1950) was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America.

Imogen Cunningham recounts a story supposedly told to her firsthand that on one of the voyages, Brigman fell and injured herself so severely that one breast was removed.

[2] The couple separated before 1910, and she lived in a cabin on Thirty-Second Street with her dog Rory, a dozen tamed birds, and occasionally with her mother.

She was active in the growing bohemian community of the San Francisco Bay Area and became close friends with the Oakland writer Jack London and the Berkeley poet and naturalist Charles Keeler.

The first public display of her work came in January 1902 with other members of the California Camera Club at San Francisco's Second Photographic Salon in the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art.

Soon her allegorical studies appeared in Photograms of the Year, and her portraits of California celebrities, such as the rakish Herman Whitaker, were featured in two issues of Sunset magazine.

[4] She often lectured, and on one occasion, in October 1906, she summarized her philosophy on the Art of Photography at a well-attended event for Berkeley's Town and Gown Club.

[9] Her popularity with the public was slightly tarnished when her famous study of an undraped female nude, The Soul of the Blasted Pine, was criticized, sidelined, and removed from the 1908 Idora Park Exposition for being an indecent photograph of a "scrawny dame."

[4][11] Because of Stieglitz's notoriously high standards and because of her distance from the other members in New York, this recognition is a significant indicator of her artistic status.

[22] In June 1913, Brigman was the subject of a feature article and extensive interview in the San Francisco Call, where she offered revealing insights on the liberation of women in a male-dominated society.

[23] That September, she completed the illustration for the title page of the first book published by the California Writers’ Club, West Winds, which also included art by Maynard Dixon, Alice Best, George Kegg, and Perham Wilhelm Nahl.

In August 1921, she held a solo exhibition at the Gump's Gallery in San Francisco and two months later contributed to the First Annual Oakland Photographic Salon.

In her review for the Berkeley Daily Gazette of that Society's Second International Exhibition, the artist Jennie V. Cannon attacked those who claimed that photography was not “art” and said of Brigman that “the individuality of the works comes out quite as noticeably as in painting, sculpture and etching.”[25] Between 1908 and the mid-1920s Brigman frequently vacationed in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where she exhibited her photos at several seaside salons.

She found inspiration along the picturesque shorelines of the Pacific and held a major solo exhibition at the Bothwell and Cooke Galleries in January 1936; the Los Angeles Times singled out Wings, Design and El Dolor as her “choicest” photographs.

[29] Brigman often featured herself as the subject of her images, such as Soul of the Blasted Pine, for which she received the Birmingham Photographic Society's first silver medal.