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Alfred Stieglitz HonFRPS (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
Jul 9, 2024 · Alfred Stieglitz (born January 1, 1864, Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.—died July 13, 1946, New York, New York) was an art dealer, publisher, advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts, and, arguably, the most important photographer of his time.
Through Alfred Stieglitz's dedicated photographic work of a half century, he tirelessly promoted photography as a fine art, gathering around him first Pictorialist and then modernist photographers.
Alfred Stieglitz led the Pictorialist movement, which advocated the artistic legitimacy of photography in the United States. Without his influence, photographers like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston would never have been able to become household names.
Alfred Stieglitz, photographer, publisher, gallerist, and impresario, made unparalleled contributions to the introduction of modern art in America and gave unequivocal support to young American modernist painters.
A trailblazing photographer, Alfred Stieglitz vigorously championed photography as a fine art and established its value as modern art in America through his own work, the journals he published, and the shows he held at his influential New York galleries.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, and schooled as an engineer in Germany, Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture.
Alfred Stieglitz (1864 – 1946) was an advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts, and, arguably, the most important photographer of his time. A photographer, publisher, writer and gallery owner, he played a key role in the promotion and exploration of photography as an art form.
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) 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 ...
