Rebecca Salsbury Strand
1922
Medium
palladium print
Dimensions
image (visible): 24.2 × 18.7 cm (9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.) mount: 55.8 × 46.2 cm (21 15/16 × 18 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.1269
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *Rebecca Salsbury Strand (1922) captures an intimate portrait of the sitter, a figure connected to the vibrant artistic circles of early 20th-century New York. Stieglitz, a pioneering photographer and gallerist, championed photography as a fine art through his Gallery 291 and advocacy for modernism. This palladium print exemplifies his shift toward "straight photography," emphasizing clarity and emotional depth over pictorialist softness, reflecting the interwar era's focus on personal expression amid cultural transformation. The medium—a palladium print—holds technical sig...
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 ...