A Snapshot, Paris
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Stieglitz trained to be an engineer in Germany and moved to New York in 1890. His lifelong ambition as an artist (and advocate for the arts) was to prove that photography was as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture. As the editor of Camera Notes, the journal of the Camera Club of New York, and then later Camera Work (1902–17), Stieglitz espoused his belief in the aesthetic potential of the medium. He published work by photographers who shared his conviction alongside European modernists such as Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, and Francis Picabia.
Artwork Details
- Title: A Snapshot, Paris
- Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)
- Date: 1911, printed 1912
- Medium: Photogravure
- Dimensions: 13.8 x 17.4 cm. (5 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Classifications: Photographs, Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of J. B. Neumann, 1958
- Object Number: 58.577.36
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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