Alice Boughton was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time. She was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz’s Photo-Secession, a circle of photographers whose artistic efforts succeeded in raising photography to a fine art form. Boughton was represented by eight prints in The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz and had six photogravures published in Camera Work XXVI.
Ewing, William. The Century of the Body: 100 Photoworks 1900-2000. Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2000. p. 33
Marien, Mary W. Photography: A Cultural History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: SunSoft Press, 2002. fig. 4.26