Rebecca Salsbury Strand
1922
Medium
palladium print
Dimensions
image (visible): 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.) mount: 56.8 × 45.9 cm (22 3/8 × 18 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.544
Art Historical Context
In 1922, pioneering photographer Alfred Stieglitz captured this intimate portrait of Rebecca Sals Strand in a palladium print, a medium celebrated for its rich tonal gradations and archival stability. Measuring 24.2 × 19.3 cm on a larger mount, the image exemplifies Stieglitz's mastery of photography as a fine art form, bridging early 20th-century Pictorialism and the emerging straight photography movement. Stieglitz, often called the father of modern photography in America, championed the medium's artistic legitimacy through his Gallery 291 and influential journals. This palladium print—made...
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 ...