Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Adams was among the handful of younger photographers embraced by Alfred Stieglitz in the read more
Artists
J. Craig Annan
James Craig Annan learned photography as a boy: his father, Thomas Annan, was a photographer read more
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron began photographing at the age of forty-eight, after being given a camera read more
F. Holland Day
F. Holland Day was a Boston-based photographer and publisher whose aesthetic passions permeated all aspects read more
Frank Eugene
Born Frank Eugene Smith to German immigrants in New York, Frank Eugene (as he was read more
Frederick H. Evans
Best known for painstakingly planned and printed images of cathedral interiors, Frederick H. Evans was read more
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
One of the most important collaborations in the history of photography began when the Scottish read more
Gertrude Käsebier
Gertrude Käsebier started pursuing photography in middle age and was soon praised by Stieglitz as read more
Heinrich Kühn
Heinrich Kühn was a vocal advocate for photography as an art form, held membership in read more
Eliot Porter
An avid nature photographer, Eliot Porter helped to pioneer technologies of color printing and fought read more
Sarah Choate Sears
A collector and supporter of the arts, the Boston socialite Sarah Choate Sears was also read more
Edward Steichen
As a teenager growing up in Milwaukee, Edward Steichen first encountered art photography in the read more
Alfred Stieglitz
Through his own photographic work over the course of a half century, the journals he read more
Paul Strand
Paul Strand became known for practicing what was referred to as straight photography, made “without read more
Clarence H. White
Clarence White took up photography while working as a bookkeeper in Newark, Ohio. Self-taught, he read more
Processes
Autochrome
Invented by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1903 and released to the public in 1907, read more
Carbon Print
Introduced in the mid-1850s, carbon prints are the result of a transfer process. First, a read more
Gelatin Silver Print
After being introduced in the 1870s, gelatin silver printing grew to dominate amateur and professional read more
Gum Bichromate Print
Although employed largely by Pictorialist photographers between the 1890s and the 1930s, gum printing was read more
Palladium Print
At the start of World War I, a shortage of platinum forced photographers to look read more
Photogravure
The earliest method of reproducing photographs in ink, photogravures peaked in popularity at the turn read more
Platinum Print
Patented in 1873 in England, the platinum printing process (sometimes known as platinotypes) enjoyed widespread read more
Salted Paper Print
The earliest commonly used method for printing photographic images on paper, salt prints were employed read more
Silver Platinum Print (Satista)
In 1913, the Platinotype Company patented silver platinum “Satista” papers to offer an affordable alternative read more
Solarization
Print solarization occurs when a photograph is briefly exposed to light mid-development. This can lend read more
Treated by Steichen
As Georgia O’Keeffe sorted through the photographs in Alfred Stieglitz’s estate in the late 1940s, read more
Galleries
Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession/291
The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession—later known as 291—began as a place to display and read more
Anderson Galleries and the Intimate Gallery
With the closure of the gallery 291 in 1917, Alfred Stieglitz found himself without a read more
An American Place
At his last gallery, An American Place, Stieglitz welcomed a stream of visitors who wanted read more
Journals
Camera Notes
In 1896, when New York’s two leading amateur camera clubs merged to create the Camera read more
Camera Work
Stieglitz had edited two previous publications—The American Amateur Photographer and Camera Notes—before deciding in 1902 read more
Stieglitz Series
Early Negative, Later Print
For Alfred Stieglitz, as for the other members of the Photo-Secession, a high-quality photographic print read more
Early Work
As a young man Alfred Stieglitz studied photochemistry in Berlin, and he returned to New read more
Equivalents
In the summer of 1922, Alfred Stieglitz began to take photographs of clouds, tilting his read more
Lake George
In the late 1880s, Alfred Stieglitz’s father bought a large property on Lake George in read more
New York Views
Beginning when he was a young man newly returned from studying in Germany and continuing read more
Portraits of Americans
Beginning in 1910, toward the end of the gallery 291’s run and continuing into the read more
Portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz met in 1916, when she paid a visit to 291 read more
Portraits of Rebecca Strand
In September 1922, Rebecca “Beck” Salsbury Strand (American 1891–1968), the lively young wife of photographer read more
Themes
Materials Research
As part of the research related to this site, forty-four photographs from the Art Institute’s read more
Nineteenth Century
In their quest to legitimate photography as a fine art, Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession read more
The Photo-Secession
Following the model of other artistic secessions in Europe around the turn of the century—notably read more
Pictorialism
The international movement known as Pictorialism represented both a photographic aesthetic and a set of read more
Portraits of Stieglitz
The photographers of the Photo-Secession found a compelling subject in the figure of the man read more
Print Variations
In the battle to have photography accepted as an art equal to painting, a primary read more
Straight Photography
The term “straight photography” was popularized by critic Sadakichi Hartmann, who often wrote for Camera read more