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  American Masters . Alfred Stieglitz | PBS
Stieglitz witnessed New York transform from a sleeping giant of cobblestone streets and horse-drawn trolleys to a vibrant symbol of the modern metropolis, with soaring skyscrapers becoming visible emblems of a new age.
Stieglitz's own photographs, and the wide influence of his ideas and activity on photographers, artists, writers and art institutions in the first four decades of the century, define him as a singular shaping force for a new American vision of the arts and culture.
Stieglitz's portraits of artists and friends from the '291' period and the subsequent galleries comprise a beautiful and moving record of many of the key figures in Stieglitz's life and in the art world of the time.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/stieglitz_a.html   (573 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Alfred Stieglitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Alfred Stieglitz spent his life pushing for the acknowledgement of photography as a valid art form.
Stieglitz was born in New Jersey to wealthy German-Jewish parents and was educated in New York.
Stieglitz was well received in Germany, but faced harsh criticism upon returning to the U.S. because of the American sentiment that photography was only a science or hobby.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=202   (320 words)

  
 Arts: Alfred Stieglitz and Photography
Alfred Stieglitz was an influential photographer who spent his life fighting for the recognition of photography as a valid art form.
Alfred Stieglitz's involvement in photography dated from 1883, the year he purchased a camera and enrolled in a photochemistry course, to the year he died in 1946.
Stieglitz and others who were making photographs of the cultured merit at the turn of the century generally termed their work pictorial rather than artistic (Norman 45).
www.cyberessays.com /Arts/12.htm   (1895 words)

  
 Stieglitz - AMAM
The striking photograph summarizes the results of Stieglitz's nine years of study in Europe and represents the moment when the impact of his crusade on behalf of photography as an art form was first being felt in the United States.
Excited by the modern city growing around him, Stieglitz was also challenged by the absence of strong pictorial traditions and the possibility for photography to assume a significant leadership role in the city's vision of itself.
Alfred Stieglitz was the eldest child of highly cultured and prosperous parents.
www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/stieglitz.html   (1262 words)

  
 Inductee Biographies
Alfred Stieglitz is undoubtedly one of the most significant contributors to the history of photography.
Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on January 1, 1864.
Stieglitz founded the group and was burdened with much of the decision-making, which with such positions, one often makes more enemies than friends.
www.iphf.org /inductees/astieglitz.html   (1692 words)

  
 No. 1595: Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864.
Stieglitz began to assert his profound understanding of the changing face of art by exhibiting the major new art movements at the 291.
Stieglitz seemed to realize that what was shifting under our feet in 1903 was not art at all, but reality itself.
www.uh.edu /engines/epi1595.htm   (561 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz (Getty Museum)
Alfred Stieglitz's contribution to the history of photography extends far beyond his photographic work, which he began as a student in Germany in 1883.
Stieglitz was a founder of the Photo-Secessionist and Pictorialist photography movements in the United States and promoted them in Camera Notes and Camera Work, the influential journals that he founded and edited.
Stieglitz worked tirelessly through his efforts as a photographer, collector, curator, writer, and publisher to secure photography's role as a legitimate medium of fine art.
www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1851&page=1   (179 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz's Life
Alfred Stieglitz was born January 1, 1864 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
At their first meeting, Alfred was 23 years older than Georgia and he was also a married man. A short time later, he convinced O'Keeffe to move to New York permanently.
Stieglitz was O'Keeffe's biggest supporter and at the time, buying an "O'Keeffe" was not only expensive but tricky.
www.georgia-okeeffe.com /alfredstieglitz.html   (409 words)

  
 Stieglitz, Alfred - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946, American photographer, editor, and art exhibitor, b.
From 1917 to 1925 Stieglitz produced his major works: the extraordinary portraits of O'Keeffe, studies of New York, and the great cloud series through which he developed his concept of photographic "equivalents." This concept greatly influenced photographic aesthetics.
Stieglitz, el ojo moderno: Alfred Stieglitz fue uno de los pioneros que convirtieron la fotografía en un arte.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-stieglit.html   (593 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American-born photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture.
Stieglitz was born the eldest of six children in Hoboken, New Jersey and raised in a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Stieglitz divorced his wife Emmeline in 1918, soon after she threw him out of their house when she came home and found him photographing Georgia O'Keeffe, whom he moved in with shortly thereafter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz   (832 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz vintage photographs for sale
Alfred Stieglitz is often called the father of modern photography because of his driving force in the fight to have photography recognized as an art form.
Stieglitz described the photogravures as "suitable for framing." Camera Work was also a leader in printing critical thought on art by George Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, Sadakichi Hartmann, and Mabel Dodge.
Among his other achievements, Stieglitz was a member of the Society of Amateur Photographers in 1891 (which became the N.Y. Camera Club in 1897), and he was the first American to be elected to The Linked Ring (1894).
www.leegallery.com /stieglitz.html   (406 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), American photographer, editor, and art gallery director, was a leader in the battle to win recognition for photography as an art.
Alfred Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, N.J., on Jan. 1, 1864.
In the United States, Stieglitz continued to photograph, using the newly invented hand camera and surprising his contemporaries with such a technical tour de force as "Winter on Fifth Avenue," taken in 1893 during a blizzard.
www.bookrags.com /biography/alfred-stieglitz   (485 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and American Photography | Special Topics Page | Timeline of Art History | The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, and schooled as an engineer in Germany, Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture.
Stieglitz edited the association's luxurious publication Camera Work from 1902 to 1917, and organized exhibitions with the aid of Edward Steichen—who donated studio space that became the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in 1905, familiarly known as "291" for its address on Fifth Avenue.
The cloud pictures were unmanipulated portraits of the sky that functioned as analogues of Stieglitz's emotional experience at the moment he snapped the shutter.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm   (811 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition - Victoria and Albert Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a pioneer of modern photography.
In 1916 Stieglitz first saw the work of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and was impressed by the expressive power of her large abstract drawings.
Stieglitz saw his photographs of O’Keeffe as a composite portrait.
www.vam.ac.uk /collections/photography/past_exhns/stieglitz   (396 words)

  
 A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: STIEGLITZ, Alfred
Stieglitz, committed to the idea of photography as art, often found this challenged.
In 1903 Stieglitz launched, edited and published Camera Work - a magazine which became world famous and continued publication for a number of years.
Alfred Stieglitz American photographers may well be proud.
www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/stieglit.htm   (876 words)

  
 KODAK: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Stieglitz proved that what the skilled eye saw, the darkroom refined, and the print revealed could be as intellectually compelling, as emotionally nuanced, as painting.
Arranged thematically, each tour examined specific subjects or periods in Stieglitz's career, analyzing the development of his art and ideas as well as some of his related activities, such as the galleries he directed or the exhibitions he organized.
This exhibition is the culmination of a five-year project on Stieglitz that also includes the publication of Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, a systematic catalogue of the National Gallery's Stieglitz collection, and a reprint of the Gallery's award-winning 1983 catalogue, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings, written by Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton.
www.kodak.com /US/en/corp/events/stieglitz   (496 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe & American Modernism
With 112 photographs and photogravures from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this is the first major photography show to be presented by the Wadsworth Atheneum since the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition of 1989.
Stieglitz's impact on his fellow artists will further be revealed in 50 photographs by colleagues Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, and Gertrude Kasebier, among others, and in 20 oils and watercolors by Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Charles Demuth.
Stieglitz was the first photographer to be recognized as an artist by American museums, beginning in 1924 when the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acquired a set of photographs directly from the artist.
www.tfaoi.com /newsmu/nmus153b.htm   (1078 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz was sent to Europe to complete his education and was studying at the Berlin Polytechnic in 1883 when he discovered photography.
Stieglitz took a keen interest in the history of photography and over the next few years became a leading authority on the subject.
Stieglitz also edited the quarterly Camera Work(1903-17) where he passionately advocated that photographs deserved to be judged as works of art.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAPstieglitz.htm   (279 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz - Bio
Through his activities as a photographer, critic, dealer, and theorist, Alfred Stieglitz had a decisive influence on the development of modern art in America during the early twentieth century.
Born in 1864 in New Jersey, Stieglitz moved with his family to Manhattan in 1871 and to Germany in 1881.
After Stieglitz closed Gallery 291 in 1917, he photographed extensively, and in 1922 he began his series of cloud photographs, which represented the culmination of his theories on modernism and photography.
www.phillipscollection.org /american_art/bios/stieglitz-bio.htm   (416 words)

  
 Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Stieglitz was a passionate advocate of photography — at a time when photography had not yet earned its place in the art lexicon.
Stieglitz displayed in a way that was contrary to how museums were showing it.
Stieglitz was interested in the sculpture as art, not as ethnographic material.
www.museumnetwork.com /features/04_16_01highlightStieglitz.asp   (1646 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Alfred Stieglitz became a photography student in Germany in 1883, going on to become an influential figure in the development of the medium and also artists of other disciplines.
Stieglitz promoted his Photo-Secessionist and Pictorialist movements by publishing the journals, “Camera Notes” and “Camera Work.” His early photographs were done in the Pictorialist style, but he later focused on specific subjects, including series done of New York City and his wife Georgia O’Keeffe
Stieglitz, one of America's most influential photographers, was known internationally as an advocate of modernism.
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 Alfred Stieglitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Although he performed most of his work before the 1920s, Alfred Stieglitz had a perfound effect on photography and painting during the decade.
In his 291 Fifth Avenue studios, Stieglitz also helped develop a circle of artist (whom became known as the Stieglitz Group) who followed Cubism and German Expansionsim.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Stieglitz studied in both Berlin and New York City.
www.angelfire.com /co/pscst/stieglitz.html   (146 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz photographs, Alfred Stieglitz photography
Alfred Stieglitz was born in New Jersey in 1864.
Stieglitz's photogravures are generally unsigned, and were printed under his supervision.
A good selection of photographs by Alfred Stieglitz is available.
www.agallery.com /Pages/photographers/stieglitz.html   (262 words)

  
 Get The Picture: Stieglitz
No longer concerned with photographs that looked like paintings, Stieglitz now emphasized modern art and photographs that looked like the work of a camera rather than a paintbrush.
Creative photographs, according to Stieglitz, should be photographic.
Stieglitz still thought of the photograph as an avenue of expression, an idea he had fully developed with the Pictorialists.
www.artsmia.org /get-the-picture/stieglitz/frame09.html   (131 words)

  
 Alfred Stieglitz Online
Alfred Stieglitz in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Alfred Stieglitz at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Photograph of the artist at a picnic, ca.1912
All images and text on this Alfred Stieglitz page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/stieglitz_alfred.html   (280 words)

  
 Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
Among the photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz are four portraits dating from 1918 to 1920, the first years of their relationship in New York City.
Stieglitz paid loving tnbute here to what he saw as O'Keeffe's unconventional beauty, her profound sense of womanhood, and her identity as an artist.
Later, in a study of O'Keeffe's hands from 1930, the changed terms of their relationship can be seen in the object she cradles: a bleached animal skull from the Southwest of the sort that would come to symbolize her art.
www.tfaoi.com /newsmu/nmus20c.htm   (705 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings (Alfred Stieglitz): Books: Alfred Stieglitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set - Volume I & II: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs by Sarah et al.
Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography) by Dorothy Norman
Alfred Stieglitz was a seminal figure in 20th century art.
www.amazon.com /Alfred-Stieglitz-Photographs-Writings/dp/0821225634   (1566 words)

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