Yang, M Art 4900 Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz was born in January 1st, 1864 in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was an American photographer and modern art promoter who worked from early 1880s to late 1940s over fifty years. He was also known for the New York art galleries in the early 20th century. In 1881, Edward Stieglitz, Alfred’s father sold his company and moved his family to Europe. Alfred Stieglitz studied to be a mechanical engineer, he taught himself how to use camera, self-taught artist practiced, he saw photography as an art form. His first place for his photography, The Last Joke, Bellagio in 1877. In 1890, he moved back to the United States. He quickly became a leader of photography’s fine-art movement in the United States. As an editor of the Camera Notes, the Camera Club of New York Amateur Photographers Association, Stieglitz supports his belief in the aesthetic potential of the media and the work of the photographers who share his faith. His two well known images Winter,Fifth Avenue and The Terminal, were took by his fisrt hand-held camera. At the end of 1905, with his young protégé Steichen, Stieglitz opened Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, the name quickly shortened to 291, the gallery's address on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Most commonly used as photographed division of the photographer's exhibition space. However, in the 1909 season, the galleries promoted the work of various advances in the arts, painters, sculptors and printmakers in almost all the usurpation of gallery space. By 1917, the 291 gallery was closed. Stiglitz's idea of photography has begun to change. However, at the turn of the century, the best way to prove the legitimacy of photography as a creative medium suggests that the appearance of photographic images of paintings, drawings or watercolors in prints by the end of the World War I. Finally, he recognized that the truth in the modern world is relative, and that the photograph is the expression of the photographer's sense of the subject, as they are the reflection of the subject. In his early 50s, he was the most primitive and richer period of life as an artist. Over the next 20 years, his works have defined his stature as a modern artist. He opened two additional galleries: the Intimate Gallery and An American Place. When he took photos, he often did out of the window of his gallery. These final photographs, Looking Northwest from the Shelton, were achieved impressive achievements, and they have synthesized all stages of his photography development and have consolidated his position as the most important figure in American photography.
The Last Joke, Bellagio
Winter, Fifth Avenue
The Terminal
Venetian Canal
The Steerage
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe, Hands
Looking Northwest from the Shelton