Alfred stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

The Steerage, 1907

Portrait of Georgia, No.1, 1923

Alfred Stieglitz, one of the greatest pillars of American art photography, photographed Lake Como at the end of the nineteenth century

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

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.

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…

Georgia O'Keeffe with African Statuary, c. 1919

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.