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Few individuals have exerted as strong an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864 during the Civil War, Stieglitz lived until 1946. He began to photograph while a student in Berlin in the 1880s and studied with the renowned photochemist Hermann ...
Portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe. 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.
Background. At the start of the 20th century Alfred Stieglitz was the single most important figure in American photography. He had been working for many years to raise the status of photography as a fine art by writing numerous articles, creating exhibitions, exhibiting his own work and, especially by trying to influence the artistic direction of the highly important Camera Club of New York.
Dec 6, 2023 · The shape of the hat was round. He was watching the men and women and children on the lower steerage deck. Only men were on the upper deck. The whole scene fascinated me. I longed to escape from my surroundings and join these people. Detail, Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907, photogravure, 33.3 x 26.5 cm ( Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Hoboken, 1864–New York, 1946. Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer who was instrumental in raising photography into an accepted art form. He was also a champion of modern art, and through his gallery, nicknamed “291,” he introduced many avant-garde artists to the American public. Stieglitz’s collection of paintings, works on ...
Person. Alfred Stieglitz's contribution to the history of photography extends far beyond his photographic work, which he began as a student in Germany in 1883. He influenced generations of photographers, painters, and sculptors both directly and indirectly. In 1905, with Edward Steichen, he founded the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at ...
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918, printed 1924/1937, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70.66 Key Set number 490 In 1917, amid the tumult of US entry into World War I, the two great projects that had consumed Alfred Stieglitz for more than a decade— Camera Work and the ...
