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Brown-toned platinum print, circa 1922
Light plays a central role in this composition, glancing off branches and turning a stream into a brilliant highlight.
Marie Riggins studied with the influential photographer and photographic educator Clarence H. White at Columbia University in 1919 and 1920. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Modern Pictorial Photography and the Measure of Its Art” (Western Reserve University, 1943) includes “A Word Picture of Clarence White’s School of Photography at Canaan, Connecticut in the early 1920’s.”
An artist, photographer, and art educator, Riggins was also known as “Laurel Marie Riggins” and “Laurelle Marie Riggins.” She displayed her photographs in more than 20 International Salons and exhibitions between 1923 and 1935. In the 1930s she studied painting with Hans Hofmann. In later years, Riggins was an active supporter of the parapsychologist J. B. Rhine, serving as Secretary of the Rhine Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man in North Carolina.
Information Courtesy Kathleen A. Erwin, Curator of the Coville Collection
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