From Room "3003" - The Shelton, New York, Looking Northeast
1927
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image/paper/first mount: 9.2 × 11.8 cm (3 5/8 × 4 11/16 in.); Second mount: 31.9 × 25.2 cm (12 9/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66317
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *From Room "3003 - The Shelton, New York, Looking Northeast* (1927) captures a intimate glimpse of Manhattan's skyline from the artist's high-rise apartment at the Shelton Hotel, where he lived with Georgia O'Keeffe 1925 onward. This gelatin silver print, measuring just 9.2 × 11.8 cm on its primary mount, belongs to Stieglitz's celebrated "From My New York" series, which celebrated the raw geometry and dynamism of the burgeoning skyscraper era. As a pioneer of modern photography, Stieglitz elevated the medium to fine art, moving from Pictorialism's soft-focus romanticism to ...
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 ...