1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1864–1946 · UNITED STATES
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
- Born
- 1864
- Died
- 1946
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1907The Steerage
- 1903Camera Work (magazine)
- 1925Equivalents
WHY THEY MATTER
Founder of the Photo-Secession and Camera Work, and of gallery 291; his work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
THE LIFE
Stieglitz spent decades arguing that photography was an art equal to painting. He founded the Photo-Secession, edited Camera Work and ran the 291 gallery in New York, where he showed both photographers and modern painters. His own pictures, from The Steerage to his cloud studies called Equivalents, moved photography toward modernism. He was married to the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, whom he photographed for many years.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia
1883–1976 · United States · Photographer
Imogen Cunningham
Sharp-focus studies of plants, bodies and industrial forms.
Magnolia Blossom, 1925Source: Wikipedia