Alfred Stieglitz. Scurrying Home. 1894. Photogravure. 7 3/8 × 5 3/8" (18.7 × 13.7 cm). Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York. 405.1976. © 2025 Estate of Alfred Stieglitz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography

Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz met in 1916, when she paid a visit to 291 to see an exhibition of Marsden Hartley works. Nearly twenty...

Alfred Stieglitz was an art dealer, publisher, advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts, and, arguably, the most important photographer of his time. Stieglitz was the son of Edward Stieglitz, a German Jew who moved to the United States in 1849 and went on to make a comfortable fortune in the

Portrait of Georgia, No.1, 1923

'The Thinker' creator Auguste Rodin (François Auguste René Rodin), 1907 by Edward Steichen

Alfred Stieglitz. Spring Showers. c. 1900. Gelatin silver print. 3 7/8 × 1 1/2" (9.8 × 3.8 cm). Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Gift of Georgia O'Keeffe. 26.1950. © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz, one of the greatest pillars of American art photography, photographed Lake Como at the end of the nineteenth century

First published in 1921 with the caption "Watch your step!" in the single issue of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray’s magazine New York Dada, Stieglitz’s surreal portrait was a happy accident. Attempting to capture the modern character of Dorothy True, a friend of Georgia O’Keeffe, Stieglitz made two exposures: a conventional, full-face portrait and a view of one artfully posed leg

Through Alfred Stieglitz's dedicated photographic work of a half century, he tirelessly promoted photography as a fine art, gathering around him first Pictorialist and then modernist photographers.