Old and New New York
1910, printed 1911
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 20.2 x 15.8 cm (7 15/16 x 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 28.1 x 20 cm (11 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.) mount: 30 x 20.3 cm (11 13/16 x 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2009.128.4
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 ...