Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz. (1934). [online image]. Retrieved on January 26, 2011, from http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/summerwork/images/Cunningham,%20Imogen/

By: Carly Cooper

• He was born on January 1, 1864 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

• He was born into a very wealthy family.

• In 1881 his family took him to Germany for schooling. His studies revolved around

engineering.

Stieglitz, A. (1892). The Terminal. [online image] Retrieved on January 27, 2011 from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/58.577.11

Stieglitz, A. (1907). Steerage. [online image] Retrieved on January 27, 2011 from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.43.419

• He spent an undetermined amount of time studying with photo chemist

Hermann Vogel.

• He returned to the U.S. in 1890 in which he started shooting his first successful

photographs.

Stieglitz, A. (1915). From the Back Window, 291. [online image] Retrieved on January 27, 2011 from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/49.55.35

Stieglitz, A. (1918). Georgia O’Keeffe. [online image] Retrieved on January 27, 2011 from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1997.61.25

Stieglitz, A. (1921). Georgia O’Keeffe. [online image] Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1997.61.19

• Alfred Stieglitz is mostly known as being an advocate for the Modernist Movement in the

arts, art dealer, publisher, and pretty much the most important photographer of his time.

• In 1887 he won both first and second prizes in the “Holiday Work” competition of the English journal Amateur Photographer.

Stieglitz, A. (1926). Equivalent. [photo image] Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/49.55.29

Stieglitz, A. (1932). Looking Northwest from the Shelton. [photo image] Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1987.1100.11

Stieglitz, A. (1918). Georgia O’Keefe’s Hands. [online image] Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from http://lushlight.tumblr.com/post/706148233/stronder-mudwerks-anneyhall-

georgia

• Stieglitz believed that photography should be considered a fine art and soon became a leader of photography’s fine-art movement in the United

States.

• He helped start a organization called the Photo-secession. This group strived to make

photography considered an art form.

Stieglitz, A. (no date). Paris. Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from http://daystarvisions.com/Docs/Tuts/Meta/pg1.html

• As the year 1905 was coming to an end, Stieglitz opened up the Little Galleries of the Photo-

Secession, also known as 291.

• Stieglitz soon became popular in the art world. In 1910, he was offered an entire

space in the Albright Gallery of Buffalo, New York to do an exhibition on photography.

Stieglitz, A. (1929). Georgia O’Keeffe. [online image] Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=5418

Stieglitz, A. (1889). Paula Berlin. [online image] Received on January31, 2011 from http://www.geh.org/taschen/htmlsrc15/m197400520040_ful.html

• In his early 50’s, he dropped the role of being editor, publisher, and gallery proprietor and started photographing the pictures that make

him known as a modern artist.

• In 1917, Alfred met the painter and soon-to-be lover, Georgia O’Keeffe. They were married in 1924.

• Most of Alfred’s photographs soon became portraits of O’Keeffe. He also shot a lot of cloud formations, New

York skylines, and surroundings of his summer home.

Stieglitz, A. (1894). Black Forest Peasant Girl. [online image] Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from

http://www.clarkart.edu/museum/collections/photographs/content.cfm?ID=59&marker=2&start=2

Stieglitz, A. (1918.) Georgia O’Keeffe. [photo image] Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/g/Georgia_O%2527Keeffe.htm

Stieglitz, A. (1920). Georgia O’Keeffe. [online image] Retrieved on January 31, 2011 from

http://ratneshsaxena.blogspot.com/2008/07/photographic-quote-alfred-stieglitz.html

• He stopped photographing in 1937.

• Stieglitz also continued his efforts to support and exhibit Modernist art. He closed 291 and then opened two additional galleries: the Intimate

Gallery and An American Place

• He died in the year 1946.

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• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/566170/Alfred-Stieglitz