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Stieglitz, Alfred - stēgˈlĭts, 1864–1946, American photographer, editor, and art exhibitor, b. Hoboken, N.J. The first art photographer in the United States, Stieglitz more than any other American compelled the recognition of photography as a fine art. In 1881 he went to Berlin to study engineering but soon devoted himself to photography. In 1890 he returned to the United States and for three years helped to direct the Heliochrome Engraving Company. He then edited a series of photography magazines, the American Amateur Photographer (1892–96), Camera Notes (1897–1902), and Camera Work (1902–17), the organ of the photo-secessionists, a group he led that was dedicated to the promotion of photography as a legitimate art form.

In 1905 he established the famous gallery "291" at 291 Fifth Ave., New York City, for the exhibition of photography as a fine art. Soon the gallery broadened its scope to include the works of the modern French art movement and introduced to the United States the work of Cézanne, Picasso, Braque, Brancusi, and many others. It also made known the work of such American artists as John Marin, Charles Demuth, Max Weber, and Georgia O'Keeffe whom Stieglitz married in 1924.

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. He then opened the Intimate Gallery (1925–30) and An American Place (1930–46), which continued the work of "291." Through his own superb photographic work and his generous championship of others, he promoted the symbolic and spiritually significant in American art, as opposed to the merely technically proficient.

Bibliography

See America and Alfred Stieglitz (ed. by W. D. Frank et al., 1934); biographies by D. Bry (1965), D. Norman (1973), S. D. Lowe (1983), and R. Whelan (1995); W. I. Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession (1983); S. Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set (2002).

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Literary Admirers of Alfred Stieglitz » Read Now
by F. Richard Thomas. 106 pgs.

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...Literary Admirers of ALFRED STIEGLITZ F. Richard Thomas SOUTHERN...Richard.Literary admirers of Alfred Stieglitz. Bibliography: p. Includes...Photography in literature. 3...
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Early American Modernist Painting, 1910-1935 (Chap. 1 "The Stieglitz Group") » Read Now
by Abraham A. Davidson. 324 pgs.

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Body & Soul: The Making of American Modernism (Chap. Nine "Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe") » Read Now
by Robert M. Crunden. 480 pgs.

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In this book Robert Crunden puts the "jazz" back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America's greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term "Jazz Age", we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel...
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In this book Robert Crunden puts the "jazz" back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America's greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term "Jazz Age", we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. In order to correct this imbalance, Crunden re-introduces us to these musical luminaries who gave the era its name as he traces the early history of jazz from New Orleans to Chicago to New York.
While Crunden emphasizes music over literature and the visual arts, he never fails to map the complex cross-currents of literature that passed between jazz musicians and their "Lost Generation" peers, a veritable pageant of the glittering personalities of the day -- James Joyce, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein.
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The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many (Chap. 6 "'Worlds of Shadow-Planes and Solids Silently Moving': Jean Toomer, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Waldo Frank") » Read Now
by Mark Helbling. 212 pgs.

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During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American culture flourished. The period gave birth to numerous significant and enduring creative works that were at once American and emblematic of the black experience in particular. Even though those who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance recognized that...
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During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American culture flourished. The period gave birth to numerous significant and enduring creative works that were at once American and emblematic of the black experience in particular. Even though those who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance recognized that they had much in common, they also distinguished themselves from one another. This book approaches the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of the conflict between individual and group identity. Central to the imaginative effort of the era was an unresolved tension to construct an individual as well as a collective identity; this tension continues to characterize contemporary African-American culture.
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Between Amateur and Aesthete: The Legitimization of Photography as Art in America, 1880-1900 ("Alfred Stieglitz and the Amateur Elite" begins on p. 118) » Read Now
by Paul Spencer Sternberger. 204 pgs.

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The popularisation of amateur photography and the recognition of photography as an art framed the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Until now, these crucial events in the history of photography surprisingly have been unexamined. Paul Sternberger offers the first thorough investigation of...
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The popularisation of amateur photography and the recognition of photography as an art framed the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Until now, these crucial events in the history of photography surprisingly have been unexamined. Paul Sternberger offers the first thorough investigation of the part played by the amateur photographer and of the struggle to legitimise photography as art. The fascinating study shows the late nineteenth century to have been a complex time for both photographic theory and practice in America. At the same time it enlarges our understanding of photographic history.
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Trace and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period ("Alfred Stieglitz" begins on p. 60) » Read Now
by Joel Eisinger. 314 pgs.

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...c. 1902. p. 46 Alfred Stieglitz, Apples and Gable, Lake George...equivalent, first advanced by Alfred Stieglitz in the twenties and later taken...who worked in the circle...
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Photography: A Short Critical History (1938) ("Alfred Stieglitz" begins on p. 63) » Read Now
by Beaumont Newhall. 224 pgs.

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...MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ Contents Preface...House, Lake George , 1934, by Alfred Stieglitz, is reproduced by courteous...Museums sincere thanks to...
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A Debt That Can Never Be Paid: Stieglitz & American Modernism, in New Criterion » Read Now
by William C. Agee. 4 pgs.

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...Arthur Dove paid tribute to Alfred Stieglitz, writing, "I couldnt have existed...Art, "Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries...1) "Modern Art...
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'Soft Framing': A Comparative Aesthetics of Painting and Photography, in Journal of European Studies » Read Now
by E. R. Davey. 22 pgs.

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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ("Stieglitz, Alfred" begins on p. 592) » Read Now
by Ian Chilvers. 670 pgs.

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From Renoir and Picasso to Red Grooms and Guerrilla Girls, this is the most useful reference work on twentieth-century art available in a one volume. Compiled by Ian Chilvers, the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, it is both authoritative and accessible, with generous use of anecdote and clear...
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From Renoir and Picasso to Red Grooms and Guerrilla Girls, this is the most useful reference work on twentieth-century art available in a one volume. Compiled by Ian Chilvers, the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, it is both authoritative and accessible, with generous use of anecdote and clear explanations of many potentially confusing terms. Providing broad coverage of painting, sculpture, drawing, and the applied arts, the dictionary has major entries on the important movements and styles of the twentieth century, including Dada, Cubism, Surrealism, Art Deco, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Body and Performance art, and Neo Expressionism. In addition there are entries on art schools and galleries, exhibitions and prizes, terms and techniques. The biographies feature not only artists but also collectors, critics, dealers, and patrons. And though the dictionary concentrates on the great names, it is not confined to the mainstream of modern art, featuring many artists working in a more popular tradition as well as interesting peripheral figures (such as the forger Elmyr de Hory). This up to date and informative guide is an essential reference for anyone interested in modern art.
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