From My Window at An American Place, North
1930
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9 × 11.8 cm (3 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.) mount: 27.4 x 34.8 cm (10 13/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.1199
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *From My Window at An Place, North* (0) invites viewers into the intimate gaze of one of photography's greatest advocates. Shot from the window of his New York gallery, An American—opened in 1929 to showcase American modernist art—this gelatin silver print captures a northward urban vista. In his final years, Stieglitz obsessively documented these everyday scenes, transforming the familiar cityscape into profound visual poetry amid the bustle of the Great Depression era. A master of "straight photography," Stieglitz rejected pictorialist manipulation for unadorned clarity, ...
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 ...