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Sarah et al. Greenough
Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set - Volume I & II: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs
by Harry N. Abrams (Hardcover)

Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). This luxurious two-volume boxed set is the definitive catalogue of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the most complete Stieglitz holding in existence, donated to the gallery by his widow, artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Numbering 1,642 photographs, the collection represents the full range of the master photographer's work-from early studies made in Europe, to views of the majestic New York skyline, to incomparable intimate portraits of O'Keeffe. Coinciding with a major traveling exhibition and providing complete scholarly apparatus and a chronology, this sumptuous volume demonstrates how Stieglitz absorbed the most advanced artistic concepts of his time into photography and transformed the medium forever.

Miles Orvell
The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by The University of North Carolina Press (Paperback)

This is a perceptive study of the relationship between technology and culture. Orvell discusses Whitman and his world, then considers material culture, photography, and literature. Among the cultural figures discussed are writers Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. A witty essay on the significance of junk in the 1930s concludes the book.

Weston Naef, Alfred Stieglitz
In Focus: Alfred Steiglitz : Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus (J. Paul Getty Museum))
by Getty Publications (Paperback)

Books from the highly acclaimed In Focus Series concentrate on individual photographers who have made the greatest impact on the history of the medium. Thoughtfully selected photographs, image notations, and the transcripts of scholarly discussions serve to define the sensibilities and vision of each artist, lending a unique perspective on their vital contributions.

Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz: Camera Work: A Pictorial Guide (Dover Art Collections)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)

All 559 illustrations from most important periodical of art photography. Reduced in size but still clear, in strict chronological order, with complete captions.

Nancy Newhall
From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography (Aperture Writers & Artists on Photography)
by Aperture (Hardcover)

Nancy Newhall wrote some of the most incisive work ever published on the inner lives of the photographers who shaped the medium. Her friendship with photographers such as Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Helen Levitt, to name a few, lends her writing a vibrancy rarely found in essays on photography. Newhall was one of the few people to gain access to the inner circle--and thoughts--of the imposing Alfred Stieglitz, and her intimate portrait of him, previously unpublished, reveals a man of genius, humor, and kindness.

Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography)
by Aperture (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-06-15)

Alfred Stieglitz was one of the most important cultural forces in twentieth-century America. He described himself in 1921 as "an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession." As a photographer, editor, and gallery director, Stieglitz was a powerful--often domineering--influence on photography and art. As founder of the PhotoSecession movement and editor of the influential Camera Work, he eschewed the prevailing "artiness" of pictorialist photography, preferring a clarity of vision, a "crystallized awareness." In galleries such as "291" and An American Place which he directed, he introduced modern artists from this country and Europe.His own work was a seminal force, inspiring clut-like devotion; the noted curator and scholar Ananda Coomoraswamy said of Stieglitz, "His art is absolute the way Bach's music is absolute." He is best known for his winter scenes in New York and Paris, his luminous landscapes at Lake George, his portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe ...

Graham Clarke
Alfred Stieglitz (Phaidon 55's)
by Phaidon Press (Hardcover)

A Beautiful Monograph Illuminating the Iconic Images of one ofthe Most Central and Influential Photographers of the Twentieth Century.Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a key figure in America's acceptance ofphotography as a serious form of artistic expression. As founder of thePhoto Secession movement and editor of the influential Camera Work, he isone of the most important cultural forces in twentieth-century America. His work bridges the gap between the self-consciously aestheticPictorialist photography at the turn of the century, and the more preciselydescriptive 'straight' photography of the 1920s and 1930s. ALFRED STIEGLITZ by Graham Clarke, is an illustrated overview of the workof this legendary photographer.This beautiful and affordable monographprovides the perfect introduction to the work of a major force in theAmerican modernist movement through a chronological sequence of 55 blackand white images, including iconic images, such as The Steerage (1907), aswell as ...

Richard Whelan
Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography
by Da Capo Pr (Paperback)

Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer: An Aperture Biography
by Aperture (Paperback)

Jay Bochner
An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession
by The MIT Press (Paperback)

In An American Lens, Jay Bochner looks at a series of milestones in the development of the American avant-garde that capture a pivotal period in artistic consciousness. He focuses on the multiple roles of Alfred Stieglitz--as influential gallery owner, photographer, and impresario of the emerging art scene--at a series of significant moments in his career. These close-ups offer a more intense and expanded understanding of the subject than the familiar long view. Bochner uses these scenes to recreate for today's readers the birth of modernism in America--what it was like to be an audience for the art of the early avant-garde. Moving from frame to frame, he shows us, for example, a single photograph by Stieglitz of a snowy night in 1893 and a short description by Stephen Crane of just such a snowfall; the preparation, the reception, and the aftermath of the famous Armory Show of modern art in 1913; Gertrude Stein's portraits in prose; New York at the dawn of Dada, with Paul ...

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