From My Window at the Shelton, North
1931
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 19 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.) mount: 55.8 x 46.6 cm (21 15/16 x 18 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.1221
Art Historical Context
In 1931, Alfred Stieglitz capturedFrom My Window at the, North* from his apartment high above New York City at the Shelton Hotel, where he lived with his wife, painter Georgia O'Keeffe. This gelatin silver print, measuring a intimate 19 x 24.1 cm on a larger mount, offers a stark, abstracted view of the urban skyline—towers piercing the sky amid swirling clouds. At age 67 and in failing health, Stiegl turned his lens outward in a series of window photographs, distilling the city's energy into poetic equivalents of his inner emotions. A pioneer of modern photography, Stieglitz championed "stra...
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 ...