A Snapshot, Paris

Alfred Stieglitz

1911, printed 1912 · Photogravure · Photographs

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Stieglitz trained to be an engineer in Germany and moved to New York in 1890. His lifelong ambition as an artist (and advocate for the arts) was to prove that photography was as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture. As the editor of Camera Notes, the journal of the Camera Club of New York, and then later Camera Work (1902–17), Stieglitz espoused his belief in the aesthetic potential of the medium. He published work by photographers who shared his conviction alongside European modernists such as Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, and Francis Picabia.

Artist

Alfred Stieglitz

Date

1911, printed 1912

Medium

Photogravure

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gift of J. B. Neumann, 1958