From the Back-Window—291
Alfred Stieglitz
1915
Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
image (visible): 24.1 × 19.1 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.) mat: 52.1 × 40.2 cm (20 1/2 × 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.372
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 ...