From My Window at the Shelton, North

Alfred Stieglitz

1931 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Stieglitz recorded the construction of the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan from the windows of his gallery and of his nearby apartment in the Shelton Towers. His photographs seem not to celebrate the astonishing growth of new buildings but rather almost geological permanence and stability: "Crammed on the narrow island the million-windowed buildings will jut glittering, pyramid on pyramid...," as John Dos Passos wrote.

Artist

Alfred Stieglitz

Date

1931

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987