The Steerage
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 32 × 25.7 cm · mounted: 50.8 × 38 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann
Accession Number
2019.22
Tags
Jewish artistsmale
About this artwork
With his camera, Stieglitz transformed a scene of impoverished immigrants returning to Europe into a study in shape and form; the image sparked his evolution from a pictorialist into a modernist. Reflecting on his career in 1942, Stieglitz proclaimed this image, taken in 1907, as an achievement of modern art that anticipated Cubism.