Barn, Lake George
1936
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.7 × 9.3 cm (4 5/8 × 3 11/16 in.) mount: 33.2 × 27.3 cm (13 1/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.786
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *Barn, Lake George*1936) captures the simplicity and stark beauty of rural America from his beloved summer retreat at Lake George, New York place that inspired many of his late-career photographs. As a pioneering figure in American photography, Stieglitz championed the medium as fine art through his Photo-Secession movement and "291." By 1936, nearing the end of his life, he focused on intimate, straight-from-life images that emphasized photography's ability to reveal emotional truths, moving away from earlier pictorialist manipulations toward pure, unadorned vision. Printe...
About the Artist
Alfred Stieglitz · 1864–1946
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a pioneering American photographer, art dealer, publisher, and advocate for the Modernist movement who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to German Jewish immigrant parents, Stieglitz spent his formative years studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, where he discovered photography in ...