From My Window at the Shelton, Southeast
1931
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 19.2 x 23.9 cm (7 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.) mount: 55.4 x 46 cm (21 13/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.1202
Art Historical Context
In 1931, pioneering photographer Alfred Stiegl captured *From My Window the Shelton, Southeast* from his-floor apartment at the Shelton Hotel in New York City This gelatin silver print, about 7 ½ by 9 ½ inches on a larger mount, offers an intimate glimpse of the urban skyline, blending towering skyscrapers with fleeting clouds At age 67, Stieglitz was in the final phase of his career, having championed photography as a fine art through his Gallery 291 and advocacy for modernists like Picasso and O'Keeffe—whom he later married. The image exemplifies Stieglitz's shift toward "straight photograp...
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 ...