Hodge Kirnon
Alfred Stieglitz
1917 · Palladium print · Photographs
One of the least well known and most beautiful of Stieglitz's portraits, this photograph depicts Hodge Kirnon, a man Stieglitz saw in passing every day. When preparing to close his historic gallery "291" in 1917 as a result of World War I, Stieglitz assessed his work and life and saw that Kirnon--who operated the elevator that transported the gallery's visitors, its critics, and its provocative modern art--had been a true fellow passenger on the momentous trip.
- Artist
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Date
- 1917
- Medium
- Palladium print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
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