Alfred Stieglitz Photographs & Writings

Seventy-three of Stieglitz's finest photographs have been selected for publication in 'Alfred Stieglitz - Photographs & Writings'. They span Stieglitz's entire career; his early European studies from the 1880s and 1890s; his views of New York City from the turn of the century; the portraits of the many artists and writers he supported; the extended portrait of Georgia O'Keefe; his photographs of clouds, the Equivalents; and his final studies of New York City and Lake George from the 1920s and 1930s. The illustrations are drawn from the key set of Stieglitz photographs donated to the National Gallery of Art by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1949 and 1980. Consisting of approximately 1,600 images, the Gallery's Stieglitz Collection contains the finest example of every mounted print that was in Stieglitz's possession at the time of his death. Thus, it is a remarkably complete collection of his work. 'Alfred Stieglitz - Photographs & Writings' was the result of collaboration among Georgia O'Keefe, Juan Hamilton, and Sarah Greenough. Her introductory essay discusses Stieglitz's fifty-year examination of what he called 'the meaning of the idea photography'. The seventy-three images have been reproduced in tritone offset to achieve the utmost fidelity to Stieglitz's original prints. Printed on specially manufactured archival paper, this book is certain to be a significant contribution to our understanding of this master twentieth-century photographer.