Alfred Stieglitz
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Alfred Stieglitz, self-portrait, ca. 1894 | |
Born |
January 1, 1864 Hoboken, New Jersey, US |
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Died |
July 12, 1946 New York, US | (aged 82)
Alfred Stieglitz (1864 – 1946) was an American photographer and promoter of photography as art. In early history of photography he represents pictorialist movement. There is no standard definition of the term, but but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply recording it.
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Life and work
In 1880s the family moves to Europe and yound Alfred Stieglitz began studying mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. Here he meets in a chemistry class Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, who was an important scientist and researcher in the then developing field of photography.
Gallery
Literature
- Articles and books about Stieglitz
- Newhall Beaumont, The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day, 1939 (1st ed.), New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982:167-168.
- Marcia Brennan, Painting gender, constructing theory: the Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American formalist aesthetics, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, 2001.
- Ya'ara Gil Glazer, "A new kind of history? The challenges of contemporary histories of photography", Journal of Art Historiography, no. 3, December 2010 [1].