Alfred stieglitz

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. © 2025 Estate of Alfred Stieglitz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography

Alfred Stieglitz was an 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

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

Auguste Rodin by Edward Steichen, 1907

Frank Eugene. Alfred Stieglitz. 1900. Photogravure. 6 1/4 × 4 7/16" (15.9 × 11.2 cm). Gift of Edward Steichen. 1191.1964. Photography

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

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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.

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This photograph, one of more than three hundred images Stieglitz made of O'Keeffe (1887–1986) between 1917 and 1937, is part of an extraordinary composite portrait. Stieglitz believed that portraiture concerned more than merely the face and that it should be a record of a person's entire experience, a mosaic of expressive movements, emotions, and gestures that would function collectively to evoke a life

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Alfred Stieglitz. Equivalent. 1925. Gelatin silver print. 4 11/16 × 3 5/8" (11.9 × 9.2 cm). Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Gift of Georgia O'Keeffe. 44.1950. © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography

Poor Georgia O’Keeffe. Death didn’t soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. Twenty-three years later, many continue to dismiss her as a prissy painter of pretty pictures—or, I should say, pretty genitalia. Even when hailed fo [...]

Steichen, Eduard. Lilac Buds: Mrs S., 1906, from 'Camera Work' Number 14:9, April 1906 (edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz), 20thC

Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz