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Ad Code: 3
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The Steerage, photogravure, 18.25" x 12.5" dated 1907, printed 1915
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada Collection
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| Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, and schooled as an engineer in Germany, Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture. As the editor of Camera Notes, the journal of the Camera Club of New York—an association of amateur photography enthusiasts—Stieglitz espoused his belief in the aesthetic potential of the medium and published work by photographers who shared his convict (showing 500 of 6259 characters). |
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