Myra Wiggins

Myra Wiggins

Myra Wiggins was born in Salem, Oregon, in 1869. She moved to New York where she studied at the Art Students League. Using her daughter as a model, Wiggins pioneered what became known as Dutch Genre photography.

In 1902 Wiggins joined with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Clarence White, Gertrude Kasebier and Alvin Longdon Coburn, to form the Photo-Succession Group. Her photographs and articles were published in American Amateur Photographer, Camera Notes and Photo-American. Wiggins also published Letters from a Pilgrim, a photographically illustrated description of her journey to the Middle East.

Myra Wiggins died in Seattle in 1956.

Myra Wiggins, Hunger is the Best Sauce (1900)
Myra Wiggins, Hunger is the Best Sauce (1900)