From My Window at An American Place, Southwest
April/June 1932
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 23.7 x 18.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 7/16 in.) mount: 54.5 x 41.8 cm (21 7/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.1247
Art Historical Context
**From My Window at An American Place, Southwest** (April/June 1932) is a poignant gelatin silver print by Alfred Stieglitz, the pioneering photographer who championed photography as a fine art. Captured from the window of his New York gallery, An American, this intimate view gazes southwest across the urban landscape, blending everyday city life with the towering symbols of American modernity. At 23.7 x 18.9 cm (trimmed to the image it's a modest yet powerful document of 1930s Manhattan, made during the Great Depression when Stieglitz, then in his late 60s, turned his lens on the evolving sky...
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 ...