Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings (Alfred Stieglitz)
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Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz
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ASIN: 0821225634

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5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars "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!

5 out of 5 stars 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.
Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography
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  • American photography and art in New York early 1900's
Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography
Richard Whelan , and Jennifer Josephy
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4 out of 5 stars 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.
Modern Art and America : Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
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    Modern Art and America : Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
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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.
    Alfred Stieglitz (Phaidon 55's)
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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.
      Stieglitz: A Beginning Light
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      • Good Looking, But Short On Analysis
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      Katherine Hoffman
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      This beautifully written book weaves together biographical, historical, and artistic strands to present a colorful tapestry of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s (1864–1946) early life and work. Generously illustrated, the volume includes photographs Stieglitz took in Europe (some rarely seen), his first works in the United States, and Katherine Hoffman’s new photographs of important sites in young Stieglitz’s life. The book is the first to look closely at the photographer’s formative years and photographic works before 1917.
      Although Stieglitz was born in New Jersey, his ancestry lay in Germany, where he spent some of his high school and university years. Stieglitz: A Beginning Light traces the lasting influences of European culture on his work, as well as the impact of American democratic traditions. The book also recounts his tireless and often lonely efforts as a young photographer, editor, writer, and gallery director to gain recognition for the Modernist cause and for photography as a fine art.

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      4 out of 5 stars Good Looking, But Short On Analysis.......2005-08-09

      Hoffman follows Stieglitz from his earliest days, in the wake of the American Civil War, to his marriage to Emmeline and a growing obsession witrh photography and the avant-garde, fueled by Wagner's music and his legend as a fiercely independent artist at the birth of modernism. Too bad Emmy was a conventional type who didn't understand her husband's drive for perfection, and too bad that Stieglitz wasn't the world's greatest father to his only child, poor Kitty. It seems clear that for Stieglitz, he would not be happy with a conventional marriage and he became increasingly dependent on adulterous relations, including an affair with the wife of his protege Paul Strand. Hoffman promises to reveal more about Stieglitz in a second volume, including his marriage to painter Georgia O'Keeffe, but for now the book ends with the dissolution in 1917 of his famous gallery "291."

      As in her books on Georgia O'Keeffe, Hoffman's specialty is tracing the influence on the artist of various other plastic arts and music. But this approach isn't especially illuminating. With Stieglitz, the comparisons to Wagner fall short of being able to tell us anything about the work itself (where they do not indeed distort it nearly beyond recognition). Hoffman is safer in analyzing individual photos by Stieglitz, but this analysis too often scratches only the surface, or even just the surface of the surface. Take this comment on Stieglitz's many photos of the toddler Kitty:

      "The subtly colored images frequently show Kitty with her long wavy hair, often tied with a large ribbon, well dressed and holding flowers, leaves, or a plant. Stieglitz's association of his daughter with blooming plant forms suggests the traditional analogy between the female and the life cycles of nature." And that's it. You keep waiting for something more, but only the obvious ever seems to satisfy Dr. Hoffman. Well, that's not entirely fair, because she's a careful writer who has done a great deal of research, and some of her conclusions, if arguable, are plainly stated. Best of all is her ability to make connections, such as the kinship between Stieglitz and one of his gallery's artists, the Tarot goddess Pamela Colman Smith. Had Hoffman not pointed up the similarities between their work I would never have thought it.

      2 out of 5 stars A truly disappointing book.......2005-03-24

      The word, "Pedestrian" hardly captures the quality of the writing in this book. "Wooden" comes closer, but the English language doesn't seem to have a word that adequately can describe how wretched Ms Hoffman's plodding account really is.

      The book's only, barely redeeming features are some early, though not very well printed Stieglitz photographs, but many seem to be missing. Ms. Hoffman will go on and on about a Stieglitz photograph, describing the "triangular relationships" produced by this feature and the "horizontal orientation" that produces a sensation of "vastness" in the viewer. But when you riffle through the pages to see whether or not you get the "sensations" she's describing, you find that the photograph isn't in the book. In addition, the text seems to have been bowdlerized by the Yale University Press editors. For instance, on page 204 she quotes Stieglitz as writing, "On the contrary, the individual is free to follow their own light,..." I don't believe for a minute that Stieglitz, writing at the turn of the twientieth century, made that kind of grammatical error. This is PC at its worst!

      What does it mean to be a "professor of Fine Arts?" This book more or less bears out the old saying that "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

      All in all, this is a very disappointing book. It should have been much better than it is.

      5 out of 5 stars A Great Book.......2005-01-13

      If you are a Stieglitz follower and if you think that you have read all that there is to read about him, you are wrong..
      Katherine Hoffman has come to the 'Stieglitz-Biography' late, and yet has produced a newly discovered Alfred Stieglitz. I was hesitant to purchase another 'A.S. Biography', but once I entered her work, I was smitten.
      The history of a great artist needs a passionate eye and a fresh start and her view of his European journies and the intimacies of his relationship with his family and 'Artists' were given a renewed spirit and a kind passion in Katherine's voice.
      She has given us new experiences in the selection of her 'images' and expanded Stieglitz's body of work for me.
      As 'passionate' as Stieglitz was to the critical aspects of his work ,so too is the 'biographers' passion and admiration for the Artist, his Ambitions, the Art of his Photographs and his Philosophy - found page after page in her book.
      I am happy that I took the step inside yet another Alfred Stieglitz Biography and yet saddened that this edition had to end so soon...
      I look forward to a follow up on "A Beginning Light" with 'the adjoining years..'
      I am certain that Ms. Katherine Hoffman has more to say.
      Harve Sherman - collector
      O'Keefe and Stieglitz: An Amerian Roman
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      • An Unvarnished, Unsympathetic, Portrait
      • A fascinating study of two complex and gifted personalities
      • This book is astounding
      O'Keefe and Stieglitz: An Amerian Roman
      Benita Eisler
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      2 out of 5 stars An Unvarnished, Unsympathetic, Portrait.......2000-06-02

      I'm a realist when it comes to human beings, holding no illusions about how cruel we can be. But after reading this book I wish I had not read it. Either I buy into Eisler's portrait of O'Keefe and Stieglitz -- which consistently paints them as self-centered persons who nearly qualify as anti-social personalities -- or I assume that Eisler's presentation borders on slander. Most of the content of the book appears to be there to justify the author's "psychological" conclusions about their personalities. This leads me to question what is actually driving the presentation -- the sources or Eisler's harsh theory about their personalities. There were so few instances where you would find an instance where they were presented in a favorable light that it leaves me wondering, "Were they this unredeemable, or is this a simplistic reduction that has not sufficiently presented the complex nature of their personalities?" Since this is the only book I've read about them, I have nothing to compare it to. Eisler could be dead on and fair. Frankly, I hope not.

      4 out of 5 stars A fascinating study of two complex and gifted personalities.......1999-08-24

      An amazing insight into the lives of two of America's great artists of this century. Thanks to the fine research of the author and the fact that so many important people in the lives of O'Keeffe and Stieglitz corresponded by letter and, more importantly, saved the letters, we are able to share many moments in their personal and professional lives in NYC, at Lake George and in New Mexico. Their psychological development over time and the effect of that on their work and their relationship is fairly mind boggling. One problem, the author never really explains what it is about Stieglitz that makes O'Keeffe love him and keeps her tied to him.

      5 out of 5 stars This book is astounding.......1998-07-09

      I got this book as a gift. It is a little intimidating in size but is a fascinating look at the extraordinary flawed lives of these two individuals. It sounds cliche but it is very hard to put down. In part I think it has such an "inside" nature to it due to the prolific letter writers involved. Everyone wrote, and luckily seemed to save all their correspondence. The look at the New York Art world in the 1920's is such a bonus.

      A great book!
      Georgia Okeeffe a Portrait
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • a visual ,intimate biography of this passionate artist
      Georgia Okeeffe a Portrait
      Alfred Stieglitz
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      5 out of 5 stars a visual ,intimate biography of this passionate artist.......1998-05-16

      The black and white photography captures the artist perfectly. You can feel her intensity and sensuality spring from the pages. It is an intimate look at a very private artist.
      Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • a thoroughly nuanced account of a problematic figure
      • Entirely worthwhile read.
      Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography
      Sue Davidson Lowe , Anne Havinga , Arthur Dove , Georgia O'Keeffe , Mark Strand , and Marsden Hartley
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      ASIN: 0878466495
      Release Date: 2002-09-02

      Book Description

      "Stieglitz is as scholarly a production as anyone could wish, crammed with facts and trailing informative appendixes. It is also a loving and occasionally exasperated look at a contentious relative and the intimate circumstances that formed him." --Time A tireless exponent of the avant-garde and of photography as a fine art, as well as a consummate photographer in his own right, Alfred Stieglitz was both the embodiment of rebellious New York modernism and an oddly domestic man who retained a lifelong attachment to his family's country estate. In Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography, author Sue Davidson Lowe, Stieglitz's grand-neice, presents the man in all of his complexity, tracing his background and revealing the interplay between his character and his multifaceted career. She offers new insight into Stieglitz's relationships with artists such as Marin, Hartley, Dove, Steichen, and O'Keefe; his pioneering promotion of Europe's most radical artists through the Photo-Secession group and the 291 gallery; and his creation of some of our century's most enduring photographic images. Gracefully weaving personal reminiscence and verifiable fact as she lucidly interweaves Stieglitz's career with his personal life, Lowe presents a uniquely compelling and intimate portrait of a hugely influential, hugely enigmatic American artist.

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      5 out of 5 stars a thoroughly nuanced account of a problematic figure.......2006-07-07

      My interest in this biography was piqued by my mounting scepticism of the claims of early 20th century modernist artists and their promoters, whether critics, collectors or curators. Much of what we think we know about early American modernism is little more than oft repeated hand-me-down information that manifests the bearer's uncritical satisfaction with the modernist enterprise. Such information serves to maintain the artist's place in the modernist temple that subsequent enthusiasts and fans have constructed and served as keepers of the flame. Critical, layered and thorough historical study reveals such notions as ideology, mere mythologizing constructs.

      Readers of Ms. Lowe's exceptionally well written biography will find a fair and balanced AND critically engaged account of an adequately talented photographer who was one of the principal apologists of modernist ideas in New York, with a reputation in Europe as well. With his small enclosed (are modernist gatherings ever open?) circle of artists and holding court in his galleries, Alfred Stieglitz combatively denounced skeptical visitors who didn't or wouldn't "get it." This was was the Stieglitzian modernist "my way or the highway" pronouncement which cowed fawning acolytes.

      A vorcious AND impressionable reader, he embraced Freudian ideas subsequently discredited in the later 20th century. Believing in the "pure artist untainted by commerce,Stieglitz turned against his young associate Edward Steichen when the latter became successful as an artistic commercial photographer (his career was also characterized by attracting the public; Stieglitz's publications always shed their subscribers who got fed-up with his sermonizing enthusiasms that strayed from photographic matters) Mind you, Steichen accomplished a multi-faceted career without "daddy's money," with which Stieglitz was bankrolled for much of his bohemian life (danke, PaPa!). He seems to also have been his mother's favorite.

      Among the book's strong sections are its coverage of the regular gatherings of the Stieglitz clan at the family's summer house in upstate New York. Here family dynamics were played out that revealingly throw Stieglitz's personality into contrast with those of his siblings, friends and younger lover Georgia O'Keefe (one of the more over-rated American artists of the 20th century) who also shared his inflexible termperament.

      The author, who spent years meticulously researching available archives (some still remain sealed), has produced a fully-orbed account of the glories and contradictions of an archetypal American modernist. It is a definitive study of Steiglitz and his personal world.

      5 out of 5 stars Entirely worthwhile read........2001-07-25

      This is an excellent biography. Written by Sue Davidson Lowe, Alfred Stieglitz's niece, "Stieglitz : A Memoir/Biography" is written objectively, yet with the knowingness and acceptance of a relative. This book presents a well-balanced picture of Stieglitz, his accomplishments (not only his own artistic endeavors, but his efforts to make photography an accepted art form), friends, family, and life. When I was done reading this biography, I felt that I had been presented with a coherent, entertaining, and candid portrayal of Stieglitz. I have read many biographies and autobiographies, of these, I have felt that about one-fourth are well-written and worth reading -- this Stieglitz biography is one of them.
      Alfred Stieglitz: Scientist, Photographer, and Avatar of Modernism, 1880-1913 (Studies in the Fine Arts)
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        Alfred Stieglitz: Scientist, Photographer, and Avatar of Modernism, 1880-1913 (Studies in the Fine Arts)
        Geraldin Kiefer
        Manufacturer: Routledge
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover

        GeneralGeneral | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
        GeneralGeneral | Architects, A-Z | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
        Stieglitz, AlfredStieglitz, Alfred | ( S-U ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
        Collections, Catalogues & ExhibitionsCollections, Catalogues & Exhibitions | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
        GeneralGeneral | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
        GeneralGeneral | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
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        ASIN: 0815301146
        Alfred Stieglitz and the American avant-garde
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          Alfred Stieglitz and the American avant-garde
          William Innes Homer
          Manufacturer: New York Graphic Society
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover

          ModernModern | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
          Stieglitz, AlfredStieglitz, Alfred | ( S-U ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
          GeneralGeneral | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
          GeneralGeneral | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
          ASIN: 0821207555

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