Frank Eugene Seated at Table
Alfred Stieglitz
1907
Medium
Autochrome
Dimensions
Image/plate: 12.9 × 17.9 cm (5 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
autochrome
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
77261
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 ...