From My Window at An American Place, Southwest
March 1932
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 23.8 x 18.4 cm (9 3/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.1235
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of Alfred Stieitz with *From My Window at An Place, Southwest*, a silver print captured in March1932. Stieglitz, a trailblazing photographer and gallerist, founded An American Place in New York in 1929 as a haven for American modernist art, free from commercial pressures. From his window overlooking the urban southwest vista, he documented the evolving cityscape, blending everyday reality with profound artistic vision. This image, made late in his career, reflects his lifelong passion for elevating photography to fine art. Printed in gelatin silver—a crisp, tonal ...
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 ...