A TRAILBLAZING PHOTOGRAPHER who vigorously championed photography as a fine art, Alfred Stieglitz also played a lead role in the u0003development of modern art in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
Summary of Alfred Stieglitz. A vital force in the development of modern art in America, Alfred Stieglitz's significance lies as much in his work as an art dealer, exhibition organizer, publisher, and editor as it does in his career as a photographer.
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he ...
Alfred Stieglitz Born: January 1, 1864; Hoboken, New Jersey, United States Died: July 13, 1946; New York City, New York, United States Nationality: American Art Movement: Pictorialism Painting School: Stieglitz group, Photo-Secession Genre: photo Field: photography Influenced on: Beauford Delaney
Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz met in 1916, when she paid a visit to 291 to see an exhibition of Marsden Hartley works. Nearly twenty-four years his junior and just gaining recognition as a painter, O’Keeffe made an immediate impact on Stieglitz—both artistically and emotionally.
About. Alfred Stieglitz is undoubtedly one of the most significant contributors to the history of photography. He contributed not only scientific and artistic photographic studies, but also introduced modern art to America and furthered the theory of photography as art. Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on January 1, 1864.
From My Window at the Shelton, North. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, and schooled as an engineer in Germany, Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture. As the editor of Camera Notes, the journal of the Camera Club of New York ...