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Alfred Stieglitz 1864-1946
Description
- Alfred Stieglitz
- 'the steerage'
Provenance
Gift of the photographer to The Museum of Modern Art, 1941
Sotheby's New York, Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, 25 April 2001, Sale 7632, Lot 100
Exhibited
The Museum of Modern Art, Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Aesthetics, December 1940 - January 1941
The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs from the Museum Collection, November 1958 - January 1959
Literature
Other prints of this image:
Greenough 310
Camera Work Number 36 (1911)
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (New York: Aperture, 1973), pl. XVI
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (New York: Aperture, 1990), p. 65
Sarah Greenough, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (National Gallery of Art, 2000), pl. 30
Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art Washington, 1983), pl. 18
Therese Mulligan, ed., The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Enduring Legacy (George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, 2000), fig. 9
William Innes Homer, Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde (Boston, 1977), pl. 34
Robert Doty, Photo-Secession: Photography as a Fine Art (George Eastman House, 1960), pl. I
Robert Doty, Photography in America (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), p. 99
Robert Doty, Photo-Seccession, Stieglitz and the Fine Art Movement (New York, 1978), p. 119
Waldo Frank, Dorothy Norman, et al., America and Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934), pl. XXVII – B
Jonathan Green, ed., Camera Work: A Critical Anthology (Aperture, 1973), p. 307
Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (The Museum of Modern Art, 1964), p. 112
Sarah Greenough et al., On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (National Gallery of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989), p. 212
Anne Tucker, The Target Collection of American Photography (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1977), cover
Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950 (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), pl. 94
Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection (Birmingham, 1982), pl. 74
Michel Frizot, ed., A New History of Photography (Köln, 1998), p. 393
Ingo F. Walther, ed., Art in the 20th Century (Köln, 2000), p. 620
Ben Maddow, 'Tears and Misunderstanding,' Aperture, No. 92, Fall 1983, p. 29