The Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz by Jason Francisco.
His knowledge of this new kind of art is evident in photographs from these years such as The Steerage, in which the arrangement of shapes and tones belies his familiarity with Cubism, and From the Back Window—291, in which Stieglitz’s internalization of avant-garde art combines with his own expertise in extracting aesthetic meaning from.For The Steerage, the museum has suspended the image in a glass vitrine alongside two related pieces of artwork: Vik Muniz’s 2000 appropriations of Stieglitz’s photograph in chocolate sauce.In addition, Stieglitz felt out of place in the company of his fellow upper-class passengers. But it was precisely this discomfort among his peers that prompted him to take a photograph that would become one of the most important in the history of photography. In his 1942 account “How The Steerage Happened,” Stieglitz recalls.
Had Alfred Stieglitz never taken a photograph in his life, he would still be numbered among the most significant influences in American cultural life in the period before the World War II. Nevertheless, it is Stieglitz's body of photographic work which has firmly established his place among 20th c. artists.Further information was introduced about Alfred Stieglitz as one of the best pictorialists (from reading articles in reference 4 and 7). New spirit of photography revolution has appeared in American life in the early twentieth and Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was the first forerunner for that revolution. Alfred was an American photographer who.
Get this from a library! Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes. (Alfred Stieglitz; Richard Whelan; Sarah Greenough) -- Presents essays, notes, darkroom recipes, and more than eighty photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, the man regarded as the father of American photography.
