Arbeit, are you familiar with Ann E. Brigman's Heart of the Storm, 1902? http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/101167/anne-w-brigman-the-heart-of-the-storm-american-negative-1902-print-1914/
Thanks for introducing me to the work of Anne Brigman, Beautiful. This image was influenced by Edward Steichen; Wind, Fire, Therese Duncan on the Acropolis.