Yang, M

Art 4900

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz was born in January 1st, 1864 in Hoboken,

New Jersey. He was an American photographer and modern

art promoter who worked from early 1880s to late 1940s over

fifty years. He was also known for the New York art galleries

in the early 20th century. In 1881, Edward Stieglitz, Alfred’s

father sold his company and moved his family to Europe.

Alfred Stieglitz studied to be a mechanical engineer, he taught

himself how to use camera, self-taught artist practiced, he saw

photography as an art form.

His first place for his photography, The Last Joke, Bellagio in 1877. In 1890, he moved

back to the United States. He quickly became a leader of photography’s fine-art movement in the

United States. As an editor of the Camera Notes, the Camera Club of New York Amateur

Photographers Association, Stieglitz supports his belief in the aesthetic potential of the media

and the work of the photographers who share his faith. His two well known images Winter,Fifth

Avenue and The Terminal, were took by his fisrt hand-held camera.

At the end of 1905, with his young protégé Steichen, Stieglitz opened Little Galleries of

the Photo-Secession, the name quickly shortened to 291, the gallery's address on Fifth Avenue in

New York City. Most commonly used as photographed division of the photographer's exhibition

space. However, in the 1909 season, the galleries promoted the work of various advances in the

arts, painters, sculptors and printmakers in almost all the usurpation of gallery space.

By 1917, the 291 gallery was closed. Stiglitz's idea of photography has begun to change.

However, at the turn of the century, the best way to prove the legitimacy of photography as a

creative medium suggests that the appearance of photographic images of paintings, drawings or

watercolors in prints by the end of the World War I. Finally, he recognized that the truth in the

modern world is relative, and that the photograph is the expression of the photographer's sense of

the subject, as they are the reflection of the subject.

In his early 50s, he was the most primitive and richer period of life as an artist. Over the

next 20 years, his works have defined his stature as a modern artist. He opened two additional

galleries: the Intimate Gallery and An American Place. When he took photos, he often did out of

the window of his gallery. These final photographs, Looking Northwest from the Shelton, were

achieved impressive achievements, and they have synthesized all stages of his photography

development and have consolidated his position as the most important figure in American

photography.

The Last Joke, Bellagio

Winter, Fifth Avenue

The Terminal

Venetian Canal

The Steerage

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe, Hands

Looking Northwest from the Shelton