Eva Watson-Schütze was an American photographer who was one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession.
Eva Watson, c. 1895, platinum print retouched with gouache, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
"The Rose", by Eva Watson-Schütze. Photogravure published in Camera Work, No 9, 1905
"A Study Head", by Eva Watson-Schütze. Photogravure published in Camera Notes, Vol 4 No 3, January 1901
Self-portrait, ca. 1935
The Photo-Secession was an early 20th century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular.
Advertisement for the Photo-Secession and the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, designed by Edward Steichen. Published in Camera Work no. 13, 1906