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Explore the photographs in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection of Alfred Stieglitz, a trailblazing photographer and champion of modern art. Learn about the themes, artists, processes, galleries, and journals associated with Stieglitz and his circle.
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- Pictorialism
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- The Photo-Secession
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- Alfred Stieglitz
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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.
Learn about Alfred Stieglitz, a pioneer of modern photography in America, who made artistic and technical innovations in his own work and promoted other photographers. Explore his collection of photographs, journals, and exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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.
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 (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.