Equivalent
1927
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image/paper/first mount: 8.9 × 11.6 cm (3 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Second mount: 31.6 × 25.5 cm (12 1/2 × 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66639
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *Equivalent* (1927 is a captivating gelatin silver print from the Institute of Chicago's Photography and Media department, measuring a intimate 8.9 × 11.6 cm on its original image and paper. As a leading figure in early 20th-century American photography, Stieglitz championed the as a fine art through his Photo-Secession movement and Gallery 291. By the 1920s, he had shifted toward pure abstraction, creating his renowned "Equivalents" seriescloud studies intended not as literal landscapes, but as emotional parallels to music or poetry, evoking inner states of mind. This deve...
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 ...