Self Portrait 'New Woman' (1896) by Frances Benjamin Johnston Framed or Unframed:Standard Frame Designed to inspire and amuse

Designed to inspire and amuse

Sold as suave sophistication

"Back to Bold" captures a moment of bold self-expression

folding queer love and gender expression into an “ordinary” summer afternoon

part pulp nostalgia - inviting the viewer to weave connections between them

Self Portrait 'New Woman' (1896) by Frances Benjamin Johnston Framed or Unframed:Standard Frame Designed to inspire and amuseIn this self portrait the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston poses as an independent 'new woman.' On the mantlepiece are six portraits she took of men (from left to right): poet Bliss Carman; A. N. Brown, likely the librarian at the U. S. Naval Academy; Henry Guston Rogers, likely the inventor and playwright Henry Gustave Rogers; architect James Rush Marshall; Smithsonian librarian Frank Phister; and L. M. McCormick, a photographer and member of