Gunhild Englund portraits

Pictorialist portrait of Fritz Englund’s daughter ─ Gunhild Englund ─ with a kitten, 1902 | src The Finnish Museum of Photography

**Fritz Englund (1870–1950) ~** Gunhild, 1903. Suomen valokuvataiteen museon kokoelma. Scan from ***Piktorialismi***, published by the Finnish Museum of Photography & Parus (Front cover & page 78)

Betty Katz by Mather ca. 1916

Margrethe Mather (1885 – 1952) ~ Betty Katz, Los Angeles, about 1916. Side profile of a woman wearing a hair comb and floral pattern shirt. There is a single rose beside her. Palladium print | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

Margrethe Mather (American, 1885 – 1952) ~ Betty Katz, Los Angeles, about 1916. Palladium print | src Getty museum

Betty Katz by Edward Weston

**Edward H. Weston** (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz (‘nude’), Los Angeles, 1920. Palladium print | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

**Edward H. Weston** (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz [Betty Brandner], 1920 | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

In 1920 Edward Weston began a series of pictures of Betty Katz (later Brandner, 1865-1982), who was introduced to Weston by his colleague Margrethe Mather (1886-1952). Weston and Brandner engaged in a brief affair in October 1920, when he made this and several other images of her in her attic and out on a balcony. With its soft focus, these particular portraits are Pictorialist in style compared to the more experimental images Weston made of Katz (Brandner) that are Modernist in their self-conscious handling of space and form.

Text adapted from Brett Abbott. Edward Weston, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 20. (quoted from Getty Museum)