Gable and Apples
1922
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image/paper/first mount: 11.4 × 9.1 cm (4 1/2 × 3 5/8 in.); Second mount: 35.6 × 28.1 cm (14 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66376
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz’s 1922 gelatin silver print *Gable and Apples* captures a quiet moment of everyday geometry and natural form. As one of the most influential figures in early twentieth-century photography, Stieglitz championed the medium as a legitimate fine art. By this date he had moved away from the soft-focus Pictorialist style toward sharper, more direct compositions that celebrated the camera’s unique ability to record light and texture with precision. The print itself is modest in scale—roughly four and a half by three and a half inches—yet mounted on a much larger secondary board, inv...
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 ...