“Personally I like my photography straight, un-manipulated, devoid of all tricks; a print not looking like anything but a photograph, living through its own inherent qualities and revealing its own spirit”
– Alfred Stieglitz, 1934
Ellen Koeniger (Morton), the niece of photographer Frank Eugene, visited Lake George in 1916.
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), a child of German Jewish immigrants to the US, was a pioneering American photographer instrumental in making photography an accepted art form and authentic American art. In addition to his photography. A champion of avant-garde European artists, he married the painter Georgia O’Keeffe, known for her paintings of magnified flowers, animal skulls, and New Mexico desert landscapes.
Stieglitz photographed O’Keeffe since she first visited him in New York City in 1917, and continued taking photographs, many of which were nude studies, for almost the next twenty years. In 1924, Stieglitz divorced his wife Emmeline and married O’Keeffe.
When Stieglitz retired from photography in 1937, he had made more than 350 portraits of his wife. In 1978, according to Barbara Butler Lynes, O’Keeffe wrote about how distant from them she had become, “When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me – some of them more than sixty years ago — I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives.”
The Steerage (1907) by Alfred Stieglitz. Original from the Dallas Museum of Art.
Rebecca Salsbury Strand (1922) by Alfred Stieglitz. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago.
“… much has happened in photography that is sensational, but very little that is comparable with what Stieglitz did. The body of his work, the key set – I think – is the most beautiful photographic document of our time.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe 1978
From My Window at An American Place, North (1931) by Alfred Stieglitz. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago.
Equivalents (1927) Alfred Stieglitz.
Alfred Stieglitz – Ellen Koeniger at Lake George, 1916
Equivalent (1927) by Alfred Stieglitz. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago.
“Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession”
– Alfred Stieglitz, 1921
Dorothy True (1919) photo in high resolution by Alfred Stieglitz.
Dorothy Norman (1930) by Alfred Stieglitz. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago.
City of Ambition (1910) by Alfred Stieglitz.
Barn, Lake George (1936) by Alfred Stieglitz. The Art Institute of Chicago.
A Wet Day on the Boulevard, Paris (1894) by Alfred Stieglitz.
A Dirigible (1910) photo in high resolution by Alfred Stieglitz.
The Terminal (1893) by Alfred Stieglitz.
The Hand of Man (1902) photo in high resolution by Alfred Stieglitz.
The Flatiron (1903) by Alfred Stieglitz.
The Airplane (1911) photo in high resolution by Alfred Stieglitz. Original from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Sun Rays—Paula, Berlin (1889) by Alfred Stieglitz.
Spiritual America (1923) photo in high resolution by Alfred Stieglitz.
Songs of the Sky (1924) photo in high resolution by Alfred Stieglitz.
Reflections—Venice (1894) by Alfred Stieglitz.
Artist Rebecca Salsbury Strand (married to Paul Strand) (1922) by Alfred Stieglitz.
Rebecca Salsbury Strand (1922) by Alfred Stieglitz. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago.
New York from the Shelton (1935)
Georgia O’Keeffe—Neck (1921) by Alfred Stieglitz.
Georgia O’Keeffe (1933) by Alfred Stieglitz.
From the Shelton Looking North (1927)
From the Back–Window 291 (1915) by Alfred Stieglitz. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
From Room 3003–The Shelton, New York, Looking Northeast (1927) by Alfred Stieglitz.
From My Window at the Shelton, West (1931) by Alfred Stieglitz.
Dying Poplar and Live Branch – Lake George (1932)
Torso during 20th century photo in high resolution by Alfred Stieglitz – the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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