Ellen Koeniger, Lake George
1916
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 8.9 x 11.7 cm (3 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.) mount: 34.6 x 26.7 cm (13 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.394
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *Ellen Koeniger, Lake* (1916) captures an intimate moment at the artist's beloved summer retreat in upstate New York. Printed as a gelatin silver print—a crisp black-and-white process that became a hallmark of modernist photography—this small, trimmed image (8.9 x 11.7 cm) on a larger mount evokes quiet domesticity. Stieglitz, a pioneering advocate for photography as fine art, often turned his lens on family and landscapes here, blending personal life with artistic exploration. As founder of the Photo-Secession movement and operator of Gallery 291 in New York, Stieglitz cha...
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 ...