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): 9.2 x 11.5 cm (3 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.) mount: 34.8 x 27.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.1200
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of Alfred Stieitz with *From My Window at An Place, North* (1930), a gelatin silver print capturing a northward view from the window of his pioneering New York gallery. Opened in 1929, An American Place was Stieglitz's showcase for modern American art, a space where he promoted photography as a fine art equal to painting. In his later years, confined by illness, Stieglitz turned his lens to these everyday urban vistas, transforming mundane cityscapes into profound visual meditations. Printed in the sharp, detailed gelatin silver process—popular for its tonal range...
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 ...