The Terminus

Alfred Stieglitz

1893 · Gelatin dry-plate lantern slide · Photographs

Best known as The Terminal, Stieglitz's iconic image of a streetcar driver watering his team of horses was originally exhibited as The Terminus. In addition to presenting the image in more traditional media (carbon prints, gelatin silver prints, and photogravures), Stieglitz also projected the image from a lantern slide, or positive transparency, at the Royal Photographic Society in London in 1897. The projected image, enlarged and luminous, was the perfect vehicle for Stieglitz's winter scene of steaming horses in icy snow.

Artist

Alfred Stieglitz

Date

1893

Medium

Gelatin dry-plate lantern slide

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2017