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Kurt E. Rahmlow “The admiration one feels for something strange and uncanny”: Impressionism, Symbolism, and Edward Steichen’s Submissions to the 1905 London Photographic Salon Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 15, no. 1 (Spring 2016) Citation: Kurt E. Rahmlow, “‘The admiration one feels for something strange and uncanny’: Impressionism, Symbolism, and Edward Steichen’s Submissions to the 1905 London Photographic Salon,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 15, no. 1 (Spring 2016), http://www. 19thc-artworldwide.org/spring16/rahmlow-on-impressionism-symbolism-steichen-1905- london-photographic-salon. Published by: Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication. Rahmlow: Impressionism, Symbolism, and Edward Steichen’s Submissions to the 1905 London Photographic Salon Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 15, no. 1 (Spring 2016) “The admiration one feels for something strange and uncanny”: Impressionism, Symbolism, and Edward Steichen’s Submissions to the 1905 London Photographic Salon by Kurt E. Rahmlow In August 1904, Alfred Horsley Hinton (1863–1908), editor of the British periodical Amateur Photographer and a founding member of the London-based art photography club the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring (hereafter Linked Ring), wrote to Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) to critique recent photographs by Edward Steichen (1879–1973). In the note, Hinton remarks, I admire Steichen’s work for myself but it is the admiration one feels for something strange and uncanny—I can’t think that such work is healthy or would in this country have a beneficial influence. Many, nay most, of his things were very well exhibited to his fellow artists in his studio.
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