Switzerland or Germany
1886/1887, printed 1929/1934
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.3 x 9.2 cm (4 7/16 x 3 5/8 in.) mount: 34.2 x 27.6 cm (13 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.56
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 ...