Alfred Stieglitz: Camera Work: A Pictorial Guide (Dover Art Collections)
by Alfred Stieglitz
from Dover Publications
Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set - Volume I & II: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs
by Sarah et al. Greenough
from Harry N. Abrams
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.
The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by Miles Orvell
from The University of North Carolina Press
This is a perceptive study of the relationship between technology and culture. Orvell discusses Whitman and his world, then considers material culture, photography, and literature. Among the cultural figures discussed are writers Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. A witty essay on the significance of junk in the 1930s concludes the book.
In Focus: Alfred Steiglitz : Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus (J. Paul Getty Museum))
by Weston Naef
from Getty Publications
Books from the highly acclaimed In Focus Series concentrate on individual photographers who have made the greatest impact on the history of the medium. Thoughtfully selected photographs, image notations, and the transcripts of scholarly discussions serve to define the sensibilities and vision of each artist, lending a unique perspective on their vital contributions.
O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance
by Benita Eisler
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Almost 24 years his junior, Georgia O'Keeffe became for Alfred Stieglitz a near icon of American art--as well as his wife. In a marvelous, multileveled biography, Benita Eisler traces the epic and stormy relationship of these incomparable artists, from their consuming ambition to their sexual experimentation.
Alfred Stieglitz: Photography at Orsay Series (Photography at the Musee Dorsa)
by Francoise Heilbrun
from 5 Continents Editions
Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946) was internationally famous in his time. He was the founder of Photo-Secession and the editor of Camera Work magazine. Later, he mounted pioneering exhibitions of European avant-garde art, from C,zanne to Picasso, in his gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue, New York. This book's publication coincides with a major Stieglitz retrospective at the Mus,e d'Orsay, accompanied by an exhibition of the Stieglitz prints in its own collection. It includes images from his Pictorial period (1890-1910), particularly some strikingly impressionistic views of New York (gravures from Camera Work), capturing the city's phenomenal growth at the turn of the century. Stieglitz's later work is magnificently represented in prints recently donated by the Georgia O'Keefe Foundation. These sharply focused and highly descriptive works communicate the photographer's distinctive approach to reality. The admirable nude shots of the artist Georgia O'Keefe (later Stieglitz's wife) are highly original close-
Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings (Alfred Stieglitz)
by Alfred Stieglitz
from Bulfinch
Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs
O'Keeffe's paintings complement Stieglitz's photographs in this unique study of the two artists, interspersed with essays by Elizabeth Turner, Belinda Rathbone, and Roger Shattuck. 55,000 first printing. $55,000 ad/promo.
Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography)
from Aperture
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.
Alfred Stieglitz (Phaidon 55's)
by Graham Clarke
from Phaidon Press
A Beautiful Monograph Illuminating the Iconic Images of one of the Most Central and Influential Photographers of the Twentieth Century.
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a key figure in America's acceptance of photography as a serious form of artistic expression. As founder of the Photo Secession movement and editor of the influential Camera Work, he is one of the most important cultural forces in twentieth-century America. His work bridges the gap between the self-consciously aesthetic Pictorialist photography at the turn of the century, and the more precisely descriptive 'straight' photography of the 1920s and 1930s.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ by Graham Clarke, is an illustrated overview of the work of this legendary photographer. This beautiful and affordable monograph provides the perfect introduction to the work of a major force in the American modernist movement through a chronological sequence of 55 black and white images, including iconic images, such as The Steerage (1907), as well as lesser-known work. The accompanying text by Professor Clarke provides a fresh perspective on Stieglitz's life and work, placing him within the cultural context of his time and within the history of photography.
With a career straddling two centuries, Stieglitz's work bridges different photographic styles. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, but studied in Germany, where he was first drawn to photography, and in the 1880s he traveled around Europe taking pictures. On his return to New York in 1889 he began exhibiting his own work and writing on photography. However, he soon came to reject retouching and other forms of manipulation. His work evolved progressively towards the ideal of 'pure' photography. He stated 'My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.'
He was a major figure in the modernist movement in the New York of the 1900s and, through his galleries and publications, played a crucial part in the development of both American art and photography. Stieglitz promoted, published, and exhibited much of the best photography of the period in his role as editor of the now legendary magazine Camera Work, and through his galleries. He is also wrote extensively on photography throughout his career.
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