Alfred stieglitz

Georgia O'Keeffe with African Statuary, c. 1919

Alfred Stieglitz. Scurrying Home. 1894. Photogravure. 7 3/8 × 5 3/8" (18.7 × 13.7 cm). Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York. 405.1976. © 2023 Estate of Alfred Stieglitz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1919-20 Item # 2641465 Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz was a 19th-20th century American photographer who was instrumental in establishing photography as a legitimate form of fine art. His earlier photographs balance the natural world with American industry as he sought to show the harsh realities of industrialism albeit cloaked in nature, while his later work was more influenced by Cubism and a desire to depict a more truthful depiction of the modern world. Platinum…

The Steerage, 1907

First published in 1921 with the caption "Watch your step!" in the single issue of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray’s magazine New York Dada, Stieglitz’s surreal portrait was a happy accident. Attempting to capture the modern character of Dorothy True, a friend of Georgia O’Keeffe, Stieglitz made two exposures: a conventional, full-face portrait and a view of one artfully posed leg

Portrait of Georgia, No.1, 1923

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Alfred Stieglitz, (born January 1, 1864, Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.—died July 13, 1946, New York, New York), art dealer, publisher, advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts, and, arguably, the most important photographer of his time. Stieglitz was the son of Edward Stieglitz, a German Jew who moved to the United States in 1849 and went on to make a comfortable fortune in the clothing business. In 1871 the elder Stieglitz moved his family from Hoboken, New Jersey, to Manhattan’s Upper…

Through Alfred Stieglitz's dedicated photographic work of a half century, he tirelessly promoted photography as a fine art, gathering around him first Pictorialist and then modernist photographers.