From My Window at An American Place, Southwest
1932
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image/paper/first mount: 19.1 × 24 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Second mount: 56.5 × 46.1 cm (22 1/4 × 18 3/16 in.)
Classification
gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66577
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz, a pioneering photographer and champion of modern art, created this gelatin silver print in 1932 from the windows of An American Place, his influential New York gallery. The work a southwest view that reflects Stieglitz’s later focus on straightforward, unmanipulated photography. By this period, he had moved beyond the soft-focus pictorialism of his early career toward crisp images that celebrated light, geometry, and the urban environment as subjects worthy of fine art. The medium itself underscores the photograph’s historical significance. Gelatin silver prints were the dom...
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 ...