Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)
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Artists
Through his own photographic work over the course of a half century, the journals he read more
Processes
After being introduced in the 1870s, gelatin silver printing grew to dominate amateur and professional read more
Themes
The term “straight photography” was popularized by critic Sadakichi Hartmann, who often wrote for Camera read more
Stieglitz Series
In the summer of 1922, Alfred Stieglitz began to take photographs of clouds, tilting his read more
In the late 1880s, Alfred Stieglitz’s father bought a large property on Lake George in read more
The photographs Stieglitz made late in his career—as well as the early negatives he reprinted read more
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About: Stieglitz, “How I Came to Photograph Clouds,” 1923
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