Stieglitz: A Memoir / Biography - Hardcover

Sue Davidson Lowe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374269904 ISBN 13: 9780374269906

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983

Synopsis

Sue Davidson Lowe's gracefully balanced weave of reminiscence and verifiable fact provides a portrait of Stieglitz that both traces his background and reveals the interplay between his character and his multi-faceted career.

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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.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0374269904
• ISBN 13: 9780374269906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 419