11.30.07
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, December 2007
A new art exhibit has just arrived at the YCCC Library! It includes nine black and white photographs by American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Come take a break from studying to view these works of art.
The works featured are:
1. Sunlight and Shadows – Paula, 1889
2. Spring Showers – New York, 1902
3. The Steerage, 1907
4. Portrait – Georgia O-Keefe, 1929
5. Barn – Lake George, 1920
6. Sky, 1931
7. Equivalent 27C, 1931
8. Poplars – Lake George, 1932
9. Hands – Dorothy Norman, 1932
The following information was provided by the University of Maine Museum of Artabout the artist and this collection:
Alfred Stieglitz is numbered among the most significant influences of American cultural life in the period before World War II. Known as a promoter of the art of photography, he worked as an editor and also as director of several prominent New York galleries. But it is Stieglitz’s own body of photographic work which has firmly established his place among 20th Century artists.
Stieglitz’s career spanned more than 50 years and ridged 19th and 20th century styles of photography. In the 1880’s he traveled throughout Europe taking pictures. In 1889 Stieglitz returned permanently to New York where he began extensively exhibiting his own work and writing about photography. Stieglitz often chose to photograph in the rain, mist or snow to create a desired soft effect as well as to demonstrate that vision was more important than condition or equipment. The Steerage (1907) is among Stieglitz’s most celebrated photographs of this period. From 1925 until this death in 1946, his work included portraits, hundreds of studies of Georgia O-Keefe, photographs of Lake George (where Stieglitz summered), clouds and views of New York City.
If you would like to learn more about Alfred Stieglitz or view more of his photographs, you may want to visit some of the following websites:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/stieglitz_alfred.html.
Provides a number of links to other sites featuring biographies and images of his work.
http://www.artsmia.org/get-the-picture/stieglitz/
Offers an analysis of 8 of Stieglitz’s photographs and discusses some of his techniques and philosophies.
Also, in the YCCC Library, the following books are available about Alfred Stieglitz:
Alfred Stieglitz : an American seer
Call Number: TR 140 .S7 N59 1990
A biography written by Dorothy Norman, a close associate of Stieglitz. This book also features a number of his photographs.
Alfred Stieglitz
Call Number: TR 654 .S75 1997
Part of the Aperture Masters of Photography Series, this book presents a selection of the artist’s most significant photographs, spanning his career.
