Photographer Alfred Stieglitz

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This paper explains that Alfred Stieglitz, born in 1864, taught his generation that photography truly could be used not just as a historical curio, but also as an art form. The author points out that Stieglitz increasingly explored the boundaries of photography. His later development is best traced in the many portraits in which he demonstrated that it was not enough to photograph a subject; one must use the photograph to capture something that might otherwise be ignored. The paper relates that Stieglitz's focus on photographing New York City helped to archive an era when the city was changing, just as his portraits showed the changes in his society's view of individualism.

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"As a patron of the arts, Steiglitz played an important role. Most of the recent exhibitions or explorations of his work, such as the documentary "The Eloquent Eye" or the shows at the Wadsworth Atheneum or the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, display his work along side those of his wife (the painter Georgia O'Keefe) and many proteges. "The current show focuses on Alfred Stieglitz as one of America's most important modernist photographers, and explores the considerable influence his work had on the American modernists he so passionately supported, exhibited, and promoted at his New York gallery,'291'."

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