From My Window at An American Place, North
1930
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 9 × 11.8 cm (3 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.) mount: 24.1 × 13.6 cm (9 1/2 × 5 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Susan and Peter MacGill
Accession Number
2018.183.1
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *From My Window at An American Place North* (1930) captures a intimate glimpse of New York City from the window of his groundbreaking gallery, An American Place, which he founded in 1929 to modern American art. As a pioneering photographer and advocate for photography as fine art, Stieglitz spent his final years framing urban vignettes like this one—often clouds, buildings, and street life—reflecting his shift from early pictorialist soft-focus images to sharper, modernist straight photography. This gelatin silver print, measuring a modest 9 × 11.8 cm, exemplifies his late s...
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 ...