November Days
1887, printed 1895/1896
Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 20.1 × 15.7 cm (7 15/16 × 6 3/16 in.) page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.49
Art Historical Context
**November Days** (1887, printed 1895/1896) is an early masterpiece by Alfred Stieglitz, the visionary American photographer who revolutionized the medium. Captured when Stieglitz was 23, during his studies in Berlin, this platinum print evokes the moody essence of a late autumn landscape. The intimate dimensions—trimmed sheet of 20.1 × 15.7 cm—invite close contemplation, much like a painter's sketch, housed today in the National Gallery of Art's Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Platinum prints, prized for their delicate tonal range and subtle gradations from deep blacks to luminous whites, were ...
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 ...