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.

In 1890, Stieglitz returned to the United States anxious to show that photography should be considered a fine art - at least potentially the equal of painting and the traditional graphic arts. His strong personality quickly elevated him into one of the leader's of photography's fine-art movement in the United States.

Medium : 1 photomechanical print : photogravure

Created/Published : c1898

Creator : Alfred Stieglitz, photographer, 1864 - 1946

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

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Product #: 21604027