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A beautiful book.......2002-07-17
The photography and the text of this book has been described in other reviews, but I want to add that this is now one of the most beautiful books that I own. The typesetting is flawless, the paper is of a much higher weight than I have seen in other monographs, and, of course, the reproductions are class. These points are magnified by the sheer size of the book-- check the dimensions given in the details above. The book is a work of art.
"The Meaning of the Idea Photography" -- Alfred Stieglitz.......2000-12-16
This book clearly deserves many more than five stars. It is one of the most remarkable expressions about and by an artist in any genre that I have ever seen.
Before going further, let me caution those who are offended by all forms of nudity that this book contains many female nudes. These are all tastefully done, and will not offend those who look with a desire to see the essence of beauty.
Alfred Stieglitz was a seminal figure in 20th century art. One of the foremost photographers in the century, he also helped other photographers define what the aesthetic means in photography. He also was a champion for many of the best known photographers, and seriously boosted their careers. In painting, he was an early advocate of important 20th century artists like Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe. In addition, he published two influential journals about photography, and exhibited art in his famous gallery in New York. Clearly, though, photography was his first love. "I have all but killed myself for Photography."
This book focuses on his central vision of photography ("search for objective truth and pure form") which increasingly was about "antiphotographs" or images that move beyond simple representation. This concept is examined both in 73 of his best images and through numerous excerpts from his voluminous writings on the subject (over 200 essays).
This book is based on the famous 1983 show of Stieglitz's work, and has been reproduced with amazing care and quality. The images are produced in tritone to give more texture and detail. The paper is of archival quality. Most people's diplomas are not on paper this good or this thick. There is a luxurious feeling to just hold the pages.
The 73 images were selected by Ms. O'Keeffe, Juan Hamilton (her friend and assistant), and curator Sarah Grenough from approximately 1600 images in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Ms. Grenough selected the writings to be used, and wrote the wonderful introduction.
From looking at these remarkable images, I came away with the impression that Stieglitz was at his best (for my taste) when he was doing portraits, abstractions, and cityscapes. Those subjects seemed to allow him to strip away the unessential better than the others he used. My favorite images in the book are:
Sun Rays -- Paula, Berlin, 1889
From the Back-Window -- 291, 1915 Self-Portrait, 1907
Marie Rapp, 1916
Arthur G. Dove, 1911-1912
Charles Demuth, 1915
Hodge Kirnon, 1917
Marcel Duchamp, 1923
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918 (3)
Margaret Treadwell, 1921
Waldo Frank, 1920
Dancing Trees, 1922
Music -- A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, VIII, 1922
Equivalent, 1931
His writings are as rewarding as his photographs. I was particularly interested in his ideas about how humans make progress. "Progress has been accomplished only by reason of the fanatical enthusiasm of the revolutionist . . . ." "Experts . . . are the result of hard work."
After you have finished enjoying this astonishingly revealing volume, I suggest that you think about how you like to express truth and beauty in your life. How can you be more direct and simple in this expression?
Be sure to live a life of "constant experimenting" like Stieglitz did!
Wonderful collection of his writing and photographs.......2000-01-15
This is far more than a picture book; it contains 73 high-quality plates and its real treasures can be found is the twenty page introduction and the fifty pages of selections from his writings about his work and views on photography. As a full time artist, I found this book to be both rich and inspiring. If you have lost sight of why you shoot pictures, try this as a reminder of clearer moments.
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Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). This luxurious two-volume boxed set is the definitive catalogue of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the most complete Stieglitz holding in existence, donated to the gallery by his widow, artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
Numbering 1,642 photographs, the collection represents the full range of the master photographer's work-from early studies made in Europe, to views of the majestic New York skyline, to incomparable intimate portraits of O'Keeffe. Coinciding with a major traveling exhibition and providing complete scholarly apparatus and a chronology, this sumptuous volume demonstrates how Stieglitz absorbed the most advanced artistic concepts of his time into photography and transformed the medium forever.
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A lot of enjoyment and learning.......2007-03-22
For this collection O'Keefe chose the best print of every mounted photo in Steiglitz's collection at the time of his death. I just flip through ten or twelve pages a night. As another reviewer said, they are small. But I just get close and enjoy. This is an unparalleled opportunity to fathom the mind of a master. If you want Steiglitz to be your teacher this is the way.
Outstanding set, fine quality reproductions.......2005-11-01
This is a major contribution to the field of artistic photography and art history, and frankly, I am not sure what the previous reviewer was looking at or for when giving this award-winning set one out of five stars (it was rated "outstanding art publication of the year" by the Art Libraries Society of North America in 2002).
Greenough's 2-volume set is a standout in numerous ways. For starters, it is the first retrospective work that has attempted to establish some kind of chronological order to Stieglitz's photographs (many of his major works were never dated previously). Why is this important? Stieglitz was extremely influential not only as an artist but as a technician, introducing new photo cropping and printing methods at a time when photography was just starting out as a field of study. Without dates for his photographs, it had previously been impossible to determine for certain whether Stieglitz was employing (or improving upon) techniques that were already out there, or if he was forging ahead into unknown territory.
The scholarship undertaken here is impressive: in addition to the dating of all the material, Greenough provides copious notes about the images, including invaluable information about the reproduction process. There is a detalied appendix, bibliography, index, and concordances, as well as information of other Stieglitz photographs in other collections.
Apart from the scholarship, however, what makes this set standout is the quality and quantity of the images. There are over 1600 photographs in this set, and only about a third of them had ever been reproduced before. Many of the images here are print variants that Stieglitz produced from the same negative, showing how he experimented with printing (using carbon, platinum, gelatin silver, and palladium among other materials) as well as cropping/orientating/mounting of his prints. These images give us a more complete picture Stieglitz's thought processes in terms of his art, his experimental nature, and the methods he employed in presenting his vision to the world.
Waste of paper.......2005-09-09
These two huge volumes are mostly white space. A typical page has two wallet-size photos and a few words of text.
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American photography and art in New York early 1900's.......2007-07-06
A very interesting read on photography and modern art in America. It builds a foundation of knowledge on this subject. So many famous names of that era are mentioned and how they got involved in the art world. With out this man the art world would have been so different.
The author does a good job of describing Alfred's life and all the exhibits in room 291 and 303.The beginning of great museums in New York and all the European artist that displayed and sold art in New York.
This book was a great source of information to get other books on this subject.
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Alfred Stieglitz was one of the most important cultural forces in twentieth-century America. He described himself in 1921 as "an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession." As a photographer, editor, and gallery director, Stieglitz was a powerful--often domineering--influence on photography and art. As founder of the PhotoSecession movement and editor of the influential Camera Work, he eschewed the prevailing "artiness" of pictorialist photography, preferring a clarity of vision, a "crystallized awareness." In galleries such as "291" and An American Place which he directed, he introduced modern artists from this country and Europe.
His own work was a seminal force, inspiring clut-like devotion; the noted curator and scholar Ananda Coomoraswamy said of Stieglitz, "His art is absolute the way Bach's music is absolute." He is best known for his winter scenes in New York and Paris, his luminous landscapes at Lake George, his portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe and Dorothy Norman, and his elusive Equivalents. His study of the expressiveness of forms and the subtleties of light won him great acclaim.
Alfred Stieglitz presents forty-one of the artist's most significant photographs, spanning his career. Photographer Dorothy Norman, Stieglitz's close associate and working partner, has written an intimate and comprehensive text.
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Stieglitz.......2005-08-20
A small, but diverse representation of Stieglitz's work, well presented and of good quality. A good introduction.
Alfred Stieglitz.......2000-10-26
Alfred Stieglitz really had an eye for the art of photgraphy. he new what was needed in order to dreate good pictures, this book really captures the essence of that eye.
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camera works: Alfred Steiglitz.......2005-09-10
a great reference for myself as a photographer and for my students. Wonderful examples of turn of century innovative photographic techniques and comments by the author.
An Important Historical Reference for Photography.......2001-01-21
Camera Work was the most important publication in the early development of modern photography. Camera Work was the first primarily pictoral periodical.
Edited by the indefatigable Alfred Steiglitz, the publication was the voice of the important Photo-Secession, but operated independently of it. Through Camera Work, early aficionados of great photography were able to discover the works of the first geniuses in this field. Later the publication also introduced Americans to the works of Marin, Matisse, Picasso, and Cezanne.
Please realize that I am rating this book for its value as a historical reference. This is not a coffee table book, and many of the images will not attract the casual observer. If you are looking for a book of beautiful and wonderfully reproduced photographs, this is not your book.
Before going further, please also realize that this book contains many tasteful nudes and would be "R" rated as a motion picture.
The book's strength is that it contains all of the illustrations (and even some of the advertisements) from the entire 50 issues of Camera Work. For most people, this book is the only way you can observe that work. Although many people have heard about Stieglitz's work in advocating photography, few have seen what an issue of Camera Work looked like. You will also benefit from seeing the essays that Stieglitz wrote about the photographers. These were done in New Yorker style and are very accessible variations on the essays often found in catalogues for exhibitions. In fact, Camera Work increasingly doubled as a summary of exhibitions at 291, Stieglitz's gallery.
The book comes with a fine essay (in English, German, and French) that explains many valuable details about Camera Work.
Stieglitz was very dedicated to quality and sought out the best reproduction processes for the images involved. Unfortunately, these reproductions as done for this volume will fall short of the expectations of most viewers. The pages are quite small, making many images appear differently than they were probably intended.
Stieglitz liked photography that included a soft focus or the diffusion of light that fog and rain can provide. In many cases, these effects are enhanced by other techniques to make the resulting images more abstract. In this book's format, these images often don't look their best. In particular, it seemed to me that many of the images were overinked in this printing, which would create more obscurity than was intended by the artist.
Here are my favorite photographic images from the book:
Bartholome, 1903, Edward Steichen
Letitia Felix, 1903, Clarence White
Ely Cathedral, 1903, Frederick Evans
Storm Light, 1904, Will Cadby
Illustration to "Eben Holden," 1905, Clarence White
Katherine, 1905, Alfred Stieglitz
Experiment in Three-color Photography, 1906, Edward Steichen
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, 1907, Sarah Sears
The Rudder, 1908, Alvin Coburn
Spider-webs, 1908, Alvin Coburn
Still Life [glass bowl with floating flowers], 1908, Baron A. de Meyer
Portrait Group, 1912, H. Mortimer Lamb
The Balloon Man, 1912, Baron A. de Meyer
Ellen Terry, 1913, Julia Margaret Cameron
Dryads, 1913, Annie Brigman
New York, 1916, Paul Strand
Photograph [shadows on geometric objects], 1917, Paul Strand
After you finish enjoying this remarkable collection, I suggest that you think about how the styles represented here have affected modern photographic methods and our concepts of photography. In a sense, these images are the dinosaur bones of modern photography.
See the truth, the beauty, and the pain!
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All 559 illustrations from most important periodical of art photography. Reduced in size but still clear, in strict chronological order, with complete captions.
Customer Reviews:
Good but with some limitations.......2006-03-16
The book is very good and very complete. I only see 2 problems! First, all the pictures are in black & white. Even the paintings wich takes off a bit of the magic of the camera work. The second thing, is that the information doesn't seam to be very well organized. I'm talking about the subtitles. We're presented with all the images in a row (from each 2 pages) and then, at the end of the second page, we have all the subtitles together.
In the end, it is very good for the money that's asked for it but not too good...
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Alfred Stieglitz had a double impact on the evolution of modern art in America. As an audacious and dedicated photographer, he fought for photography's acceptance as an art form. As a gallery owner, he introduced the American public to the greatest artists of the period: Rodin, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso, Brancusi, Braque, and Duchamp owed their first exhibitions in America to Stieglitz's vision and energy. The large and elegant Modern Art and America, organized by Sarah Greenough, curator of photography at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, presents 360 works by artists associated with Stieglitz's galleries, including the photographer himself. The first half of the book describes the years 1905 to 1917, when Stieglitz used his Gallery 291 as an intellectual forum and a place to exhibit the work of mostly European artists. The second covers 1921 to 1946, when he focused on promoting American artists such as John Marin, Arthur Dove, Paul Strand, and Stieglitz's partner, Georgia O'Keeffe. In an imaginative re-creation of history, the editors have gone to great lengths to locate and illustrate the actual paintings, photos, and sculptures that Stieglitz exhibited. Essays by curators at the National Gallery and others describe his relationships with individual artists, successfully conveying the intellectual ferment that he inspired. Modern Art and America, printed in Italy to the highest quality standards, is an exemplary combination of scholarship and art book, a pleasure both to look at and to read. --John Stevenson
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Never before has there been such a comprehensive overview of Alfred Stieglitzs role in bringing modern European art to North America. This exceptional volume includes enlightening essays by leading Stieglitz scholars. 350 reproductions of paintings, sculpture, and photographs by preeminent American artists.
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Stieglitz's most significant essays published together for the first time in a single volume.
Over the years, Alfred Stieglitz wrote extensively and authoritatively about many aspects of photography. In Stieglitz on Photography renowned Stieglitz expert Sarah Greenough and art historian Richard Whelan gather more than fifty of this master photographer's astute writings about the medium, along with their insightful and anecdotal commentary on each article.
Throughout his six-decade career, Stieglitz devoted himself almost entirely to the investigation of truth and integrity in artistic expression. With the pioneering exhibitions he mounted at Gallery 291, the pages of Camera Work he edited and produced, and his extensive writings on photography, Stieglitz tirelessly championed photography as a fine art-a legacy that continues to influence thinking on photography today.
Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Stieglitz and his contemporaries, as well as with selections of his articles in their original layouts, this volume contains reproductions of many of Stieglitz's photographs that are otherwise unknown today.
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"Must" reading for all serious students of photography........2000-07-05
Alfred Stieglitz is legendary in the annals of American photography. In Stieglitz On Photography: His Selected Essays And Notes, Richard Whelan has compiled and annotated the best of Stieglitz's commentaries regarding the power and beauty of the photograph as an artistic and interpretative medium. Drawing from Stieglitz's exhibition reviews, travel pieces, technical articles, and various diatribes on Pictorialism and the founding of the Photo-Secession, Stieglitz On Photography is "must" reading for all serious students of the developmental history and cultural relevance of American photography.
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A Beautiful Monograph Illuminating the Iconic Images of one ofthe Most Central and Influential Photographers of the Twentieth Century.Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a key figure in America's acceptance ofphotography as a serious form of artistic expression. As founder of thePhoto Secession movement and editor of the influential Camera Work, he isone of the most important cultural forces in twentieth-century America. His work bridges the gap between the self-consciously aestheticPictorialist photography at the turn of the century, and the more preciselydescriptive 'straight' photography of the 1920s and 1930s. ALFRED STIEGLITZ by Graham Clarke, is an illustrated overview of the workof this legendary photographer.This beautiful and affordable monographprovides the perfect introduction to the work of a major force in theAmerican modernist movement through a chronological sequence of 55 blackand white images, including iconic images, such as The Steerage (1907), aswell as lesser-known work.The accompanying text by Professor Clarkeprovides a fresh perspective on Stieglitz's life and work, placing himwithin the cultural context of his time and within the history ofphotography.With a career straddling two centuries, Stieglitz's work bridges differentphotographic styles. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, but studied inGermany, where he was first drawn to photography, and in the 1880s hetraveled around Europe taking pictures.On his return to New York in 1889he began exhibiting his own work and writing on photography.However, hesoon came to reject retouching and other forms of manipulation. His workevolved progressively towards the ideal of 'pure' photography.He stated'My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much likephotographs that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - andstill everyone will never forget having once looked at them.' He was a major figure in the modernist movement in the New York of the1900s and, through his galleries and publications, played a crucial part inthe development of both American art and photography.Stieglitz promoted,published, and exhibited much of the best photography of the period in hisrole as editor of the now legendary magazine Camera Work, and through hisgalleries.He is also wrote extensively on photography throughout hiscareer.
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