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Synopsis
Interweaves personal reminiscence and factual accounts to encompass the artist's personal and professional lives, which embraced many aspects of the avant-garde art world, including photography, painting, sculpture, the art quarterly "Camera Work," and the gallery "291."
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About the Author
Perhaps no other person has done as much to legitimize the art of photography as did Alfred Stieglitz. Born in 1864 in Hoboken, New Jersey, Stieglitz studied mechanical engineering in Berlin but was always drawn to taking pictures. He won the first of his 150 photography prizes at age 24 in a British competition judged by P.H. Emerson. Returning to New York in 1889, Stieglitz began writing on photography and exhibiting his own work, the most celebrated of which include The Terminal (1893) and The Steerage (1907). In 1902, Stieglitz founded the Photo-Secession group and opened his first gallery, 291, where he exhibited American photographers of the Pictorialist movement, and painters and sculptors including Matisse, Braque, Rodin, and Georgia O'Keeffe, whom he married in 1924. That same year he began publishing the quarterly Camera Work. Stieglitz ran two other art spaces, the Intimate Gallery and An American Place, and continued to photograph until his death in 1946, leaving behind hundreds of studies of O'Keeffe, photographs of Lake George, and New York City views.
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"A portrait-in-the-round of the pioneer American photographer...Affectionate but measured." -- New Yorker
"Contains a trove of choice information." -- Boston Globe
"Fascinating." -- Newsweek
"Lowe has written a book that finally captures the personality of Alfred Stieglitz." -- Washington Post Book World
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0374518270
- ISBN 13 9780374518271
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages419
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