Alfred Stieglitz was born in New Jersey in 1864, and was raised in New York city. His family moved to Germany in 1881 and Stieglitz began college as an engineering student before quickly switching to photography. He spent most of his time traveling through the European countryside with his camera, and he achieved a level of skill that won him prizes and attention throughout Europe in the 1880s.

He had three phases to his career, starting as a naturalist photographer sensitively portraying rural lifestyles followed by his pictorialist period creating impressionistic pictures, and finally he turned modern, embracing abstraction, photographic detail, and realistic tones. Stieglitz's own work and the wide influence of his ideas and activities on all forms of creative expression, defined him as a singular shaping force for a new American vision of the arts and culture.

Original Medium : 1 photomechanical print : photogravure

Created/Published : c1902

Creator : Alfred Stieglitz, photographer, 1864 - 1946

Housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress

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Product #: 21604025