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): 24.4 x 19.1 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.) mount: 56.3 x 46.3 cm (22 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.1223
Art Historical Context
**From My Window at Shelton, North** (1931) captures Alfred Stieglitz intimate view of New York City's evolving skyline from his sixth-floor apartment at the Shelton Hotel. One of America's pioneering photographers, Stieglitz championed photography as a fine art through his gallery "291" publications like *Camera Work*. In his final years, battling illness, he turned his lens to these urban vistas, producing over 300 images between 1929 and 1936 that blend architecture, clouds, and light in poetic compositions. Printed as a gelatin silver print—a crisp black-and-white process favored for its ...
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 ...