The Piazza, Venice
Alfred Stieglitz
1894, printed 1895/1896
Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
image: 13.1 × 18.2 cm (5 3/16 × 7 3/16 in.) page size: 34 × 27.3 cm (13 3/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2006.3.1.5
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 ...