In June 1913 Brigman was the subject of a feature article and extensive interview in the "San Francisco Call", where she offered revealing insights on the liberation of women in a male-dominated society. That September she completed the illustration for the title page of the first book published by the California Writers’ Club, "West Winds", which also included art by Maynard Dixon, Alice Best, George Kegg and Perham Wilhelm Nahl. In August 1921 she held a solo exhibition at the Gump's Gallery in San Francisco and two months later contributed to the First Annual Oakland Photographic Salon. In spring 1922 she exhibited the work of eight other photographers in her Oakland studio; that fall in the San Francisco studio of Dorothea Lange she was a featured speaker at a symposium on the problems of pictorial photography. Between 1923 and 1926 she displayed her “imaginative nudes” at the International Exhibitions of the Pictorial Photographic Society of San Francisco in the Palace of Fine Arts and the Palace of the Legion of Honor. In her review for the "Berkeley Daily Gazette" of that Society's Second International Exhibition, the artist Jennie V. Cannon attacked those who claimed that photography was not “art” and said of Brigman that “the individuality of the works comes out quite as noticeably as in painting, sculpture and etching.”