Morning

Clarence H. White

1905 · Platinum print · Photographs

Morning perfectly embodies the tenets of Pictorialism: expressive, rather than narrative or documentary, content; craftsmanship in the execution of the print; and a carefully constructed composition allied to Impressionist and American Tonalist painting and to popular Japanese prints. His photographs from the period before he moved to New York in 1906 signaled a remove from the modern urban world. Neither genre scene nor narrative tableau, this photograph is a retreat into domesticized nature.

Artist

Clarence H. White

Date

1905

Medium

Platinum print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933