The Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz (Volume 4) (Defining Moments in Photography)
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The Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz (Volume 4) (Defining Moments in Photography)

When, in 1907, Alfred Stieglitz took a simple picture of passengers on a ship bound for Europe, he could not have known that The Steerage, as it was soon called, would become a modernist icon and, from today€s vantage, arguably the most famous photograph made by an American photographer. In complementary essays, a photo historian and a photographer reassess this important picture, rediscovering the complex social and aesthetic ideas that informed it and explaining how over the years it has achieved its status as a masterpiece. What aspects of Stieglitz€s ideas and sometimes-murky ambitions help us understand the picture€s achievements? How should we assess the photograph in relation to Stieglitz€s many writings about it? The authors of this book explore what The Steerage might mean in at least two senses-by itself, as a grand and self-sufficient work, and also ineluctably bound up with the many stories told about it. They make the photograph, today, what Stieglitz himself made it over the years-a photo-text work.

  • TitleThe Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz (Volume 4) (Defining Moments in Photography)
  • BrandUniversity of California Press
  • ManufacturerUniversity of California Press
  • BindingPaperback
  • ProductGroupBook
  • ReleaseDate2012-03-13T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • FormatIllustrated
  • EANs9780520266230