Livija Patikne

Photographer James Brozek and Debra Brehmer of the Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee joined forces to bring Livija Patikne’s photographs to the light. Fifteen years ago, Brozek was given a box of slides by an apartment manager who was closing out the residence of an elderly tenant. Recalling that he "felt something" for this body of non-descript slides, he kept them. Little is known about Livija Patikne (1911-2001), the Latvian-American woman whose still-life compositions and self-portraits offer a poignant view of her private artistic pursuit.