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Alfred Stieglitz

    Alfred Stieglitz war ein bedeutender amerikanischer Fotograf und Förderer der modernen Kunst, der über fünfzig Jahre lang daran arbeitete, die Fotografie als anerkannte Kunstform zu etablieren. Neben seiner eigenen fotografischen Arbeit ist Stieglitz bekannt für seine Galerien in New York, die er im frühen 20. Jahrhundert betrieb und wo er viele europäische Avantgarde-Künstler in den USA vorstellte. Sein Vermächtnis liegt in seinem Engagement für die Aufwertung der Fotografie und seiner Rolle bei der Gestaltung der amerikanischen modernen Kunst.

    Brushes with History
    Nový a starý New York = New and Old New York
    Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography, No 6)
    Alfred Stieglitz
    My Faraway One
    Camera work
    • My Faraway One

      Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: 1915-1933

      • 832 Seiten
      • 30 Lesestunden

      Few couples in 20th-century American art and culture are as significant as Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. From 1915 to 1946, they exchanged over 5,000 letters (more than 25,000 pages) detailing their lives. This volume presents around 650 carefully selected and annotated letters by photography scholar Sarah Greenough. The correspondence captures their initial romance in the 1910s, their life together in the 1920s, the strain on their relationship during the early Depression years, and its revival in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Their distinct writing styles—O'Keeffe's sparse vibrancy and Stieglitz's fervent lyricism—offer insights into their creative evolution and friendships with influential figures in early American modernism, such as Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, and Paul Strand. The letters also highlight their interactions with key personalities in American and European art and culture, including Duncan Phillips, Diego Rivera, and Marcel Duchamp. Additionally, their poignant prose reflects the broader cultural influences of World Wars I and II, the 1920s economic boom, and the 1930s Depression on their lives as articulate, creative individuals.

      My Faraway One2011
      4,3
    • Brushes with History

      Writing on Art from The Nation, 1865-2001

      • 380 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden

      The Nation magazine, since its founding in 1865, began what has become, for better or worse, art criticism as a cultural institution in the United States. This eclectic collection features contributors like Christopher Hitchens on “degenerate art,” Heywood Broun on the Artists Congress of 1936, Katherine Anne Porter on children’s art, Marianne Moore on the death of Nation art critic Paul Rosenfeld, and Langston Hughes on “Negro Art.” The volume also includes contributions from many well-known Stuart Davis, Marsden Harley, Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Kenyon Cox, Guy Pene Du Bois, Louis Lozowick, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Celebrated writers on art such as Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Lawrence Alloway, Hilton Kramer, Max Kozloff, John Berger, and Arthur Danto give readers first-hand accounts of the debuts of artists ranging from John Singer Sargent to Jackson Pollock and Willem deKooning as well as the famous lawsuit between John Ruskin and James McNeill Whistler (reported by a youthful Henry James), the destruction of Diego Rivera’s Rockefeller Center murals and Richard Nixon’s views on art. More recently writers like E.L. Doctorow and Katha Pollitt have weighed in on the recent culture wars over arts funding and free expression.

      Brushes with History2001
    • Alfred Stieglitz

      Photographs & writings

      • 246 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      Returning to print after fifteen years, a high-quality collection of seventy-three images from the career of the pioneering photographer features portraits of artist Georgia O'Keeffe and early twentieth-century New York City. 10,000 first printing.

      Alfred Stieglitz1999
      4,2
    • Camera work

      • 800 Seiten
      • 28 Lesestunden

      This collection of half-tone and photogravure reproductions from all 50 issues of the legendary photographic magazine produced by Stieglitz contains the work of Eduard Steichen, Frank Eugene, Clarence H. White, & others, as well as Stieglitz's own photography and original essays. Intro in English, German, French.

      Camera work1997
      4,4
    • "[Stieglitz's] photographs of things and people-of sun and cloud shapes-become equivalents of a deeply critical yet affirmative inquiry into contemporary life. They are the objective and beautiful conclusions of that imagery" - Paul Strand

      Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography, No 6)1989
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