Self-Portrait
Alfred Stieglitz
1894
Medium
Lantern slide
Dimensions
8.3 × 10.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 in.)
Classification
lantern slide (glass)
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
68608
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 ...