Gertrude Kasebier

       Gertrude Kasebier is know as one of the most influential American photographer of the 20th century. Her images were often depictions of motherhood and strong native Americans. She was born May 18 1852 in Fort Des Moines. After her father died in 1864 her family moved to Brooklyn, New York.She married Eduard Kaebier in 1874 who was a wealthy New York businessman and they moved to a farm in New Jersey to raise their children. In 1889 she made her family move back to New York so that she could attend Pratt Institute of Art and Design. By 1894 she became obsessed with photography and spent weeks studying the physics behind it in Germany. When her husband died in she focused on nothing but photography and helped establish the Women's Professorial Photographers Association of America. Though many people put her down and insulted her work such as Stiegliz she never gave up. On October 12 1934 Gertrude died at her daughters home and a major collection of her work is at the University of Delaware.