Ellen Koeniger, Lake George
1916
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.1 x 11.6 cm (3 9/16 x 4 9/16 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
1949.3.398
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz *Ellen Koeniger, Lake* (1916) captures a quiet moment at the artist's beloved family retreat in upstate New York. Lake George served as a personal sanctuary for Stiegl, where he produced some of his most intimate photographs amid the natural beauty of the Adirondacks. This gelatin silver print, a hallmark medium of early 20th photography, features a trimmed sheet of just 9.1 x 11.6 cm mounted on a much larger 34.6 x 26.7 cm board—a technique that emphasized the image's delicate tonalities and invited close contemplation, much like a painting. As a pioneer of photography as fi...
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 ...