The Steerage
Alfred Stieglitz
1907, printed 1915
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
Image: 31.9 × 25.8 cm (12 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Paper: 39.7 × 28 cm (15 11/16 × 11 1/16 in.); Mount: 42.7 × 30.7 cm (16 13/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66739
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 ...