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Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz in 1902 by Gertrude Käsebier

Born : January 1,1864 Hobkon,New Jersey,U.S.

Died : July 13,1946 New York City,New York,U.S.

Nationality: American

Family Father : Edward Stieglitz (1833–1909) Mother : Hedwig Ann Werner (1845–1922) Five brothers and sisters[ Flora (1865–1890),

twins Julius (1867–1937) and Leopold (1867–1956), Agnes (1869–1952) and Selma (1871–1957)]

Wife :Emmeline Obermeyer(1893) Georgia O’Keeffe(1924 - Daughter: Katherine "Kitty“(1898)

American Photographer Modern art promoter Made photography an accepted art

form

Education

The Charlier Institute Taught chemistry by Hermann Wilhelm

Vogel Realgymnasium (middle school) in

Karlsruhe. Studied mechanical engineering at the

Technische Hochschule in Berlin.

Met with German artists Adolf von Menzel and Wilhelm Hasemann - got the idea of making art directly from nature

 Bought first camera-1884 First article- "A Word or Two about

Amateur Photography in Germany“---the new magazine ‘The Amateur Photographer’-1887

Stieglitz's first photographic recognition-The Last Joke, Bellagiowon - first place in the annual holiday competition held by the British magazine Amateur Photographer

Started a small photography business “Photochrome Engraving Company”

Bought first hand-held camera, a Folmer and Schwing 4x5 plate film camera-1892

Two of his best known images-Winter, Fifth Avenue and The Terminal.

The Last Joke, Bellagiowon -1887

Winter, Fifth Avenue-1892

The Terminal-1892

Work Places/Galleries one of the first two American members

of the Linked Ring Vice president of ‘The Camera Club of

New York’/ ‘291’ Co-editor of The American Amateur

Photographer one of the first two American members

of the Linked Ring

Editor of ‘Camera Notes’ Editor of ‘Camera Work’ a photographic

journal “The Intimate Gallery” / “The Room”-1925 An American Place ( "The Place"). Editor of the journal “291”

Exhibitions Exhibit in shows in Europe and the U.S., "Secessionists", In November 1898 in

Munich, Germany A one-man exhibition at the Camera Club-

may,1899 At National Arts Club-Mar,1902 At the "Little Galleries of the Photo-

Secession“-25 Nov,1905

At National Arts Club’s "Special Exhibition of Contemporary Art"

At Anderson Galleries (largest exhibitions of American art)

Mounted one of the first exhibitions of photos by Ansel Adams

At Albright Art Gallery,1910

Photography as an accepted art form

Got the concept - German artists Adolf von Menzel and Wilhelm Hasemann

Collected books on photography-made a large library- formulated his initial thinking

Wrote most of the articles and reviews in the magazine(The American Amateur Photographer) - gained an enthusiastic audience for both technical and critical writings

Member of the Linked Ring – used the recognition to step up his cause of promoting artistic photography in the United States.

Society of Amateur Photographers and the New York Camera Club-------The Camera Club of New York - 1896

Newsletter-Camera Notes(1897)- articles on art and aesthetics

First portfolio of his own work, Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies.

Various types of exhibitions

Throughout 1911 and early 1912 continued organizing ground-breaking exhibits of modern art at 291 and promoting new art along with photography in the pages of Camera Work.

The Steerage-1907

Colleagues and Friends French photographer Robert Demachy George Davidson and Alfred Horsley

Hinton founders of Linked Ring Edward Steichen Clarence H. White

He said:

"I wanted to photograph clouds to find out what I had learned in forty years about photography. Through clouds to put down my philosophy of life – to show that (the success of) my photographs (was) not due to subject matter – not to special trees or faces, or interiors, to special privileges – clouds were there for everyone…” -1922

Stieglitz had______More than 3,000 photographs of his own

850 works of art mostly by the Modern artists that he represented

580 prints by other photographers

An enormous collection of books and writings

Nearly 50,000 pieces of correspondence

Hands- Georgia O’Keeffe

Key Set

O’Keeffe Donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC 1,317 Stieglitz photographs(1949) 325 photographs taken by Stieglitz of

her,1980 Total=1,642 photographs The largest, most complete collection of

Stieglitz's work

Eight of the nine highest prices ever paid at auction for Stieglitz photographs (as of 2008) are images of Georgia O'Keeffe

The highest-priced - Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands)- US$1.47 million at auction in February 2006.

Georgia O'Keeffe Nude-$1.36 million

Cited from… Richard Whelan (1995). Alfred Stieglitz: A

Biography. NY: Little, Brown. pp. 11–22, 214, 281, 382, 400.

"Enrollment Act, 1863". Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-04.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp (2004). Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. NY: Norton. pp. 54–57.

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