Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
Background
- Born in
- Hoboken
- Educated at
- Technische Universität BerlinCity College of New York
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Trending topics shown first"Atmosphere is the medium through which we see all things. In order, therefore, to see them in their true value on a photograph, as we do in Nature, atmosphere must be there. Atmosphere softens all lin…"
"I know exactly what I have photographed . I know I have done something that has never been done.. .I also know that there is more of the really abstract in some 'representation' than in most of the de…"
"Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze."
"I have always been a great believer in today. Most people live either in the past or in the future, so that they really never live at all. So many people are busy worrying about the future of art or s…"
"There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography."
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1864
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Birth1946
Died
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