Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Photography

Frank Eugene, Alfred Stieglitz, Heinrich Kuhn and Edward Steichen admiring the work of Eugene, 1907. Photo: National Media Museum.

[Virtual tour] In 1905 Alfred Stieglitz founded the Little Galleries of the Photo Secession on Fifth Ave, at #291, which became the gallery’s name, and it became the most important center for modern art photography in the US. During the early years participating photographers favored Pictorialism, an atmospheric style inspired by the fine arts, but moving forward they favored a sharper focus and confidently developed a new independent photographic approach to capture the quickly changing modern world. Core photographers, besides Stieglitz, were Edward Steichen, Clarence White, Gertrude Käsebier, Eva Watson-Schütze, Anne Brigman, Alvin Langdon Coburn and Paul Strand. Join art historian Sylvia Laudien-Meo for this exploration.

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