Early Morn, from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150
1894
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
Image/paper: 14 × 19.8 cm (5 9/16 × 7 13/16 in.); First hinged paper: 12.5 × 17.9 cm (4 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Second hinged paper: 20.1 × 26.8 cm (7 15/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
103519
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 ...