Alfred Stieglitz: 1864 - 1946 (Photographer)

Blog Entry No 20
Tutor: Ms. Scicluna
Date Uploaded: 12/2/2016

The Terminal - Stieglitz 

- Determinded to prove photography medium was capable of artistic expression as painting or sclupture did.
- editor of Camera Notes (Jounral of the Camera of New York - association of amateur photography and enthusiasts) 
-Stieglitz had his beliefs that the aesthetic potential of the meduim would publish the work of other like minded photographers that shared his conviction.
- In 1902 - the form of Photo Secession was created nby Stieglitz and a few other photographers that had his same beliefs about the medium.
- Photo Secession, was pursued as an intensity towards craftmanship that had included photography. 
- Different techniques were invented in making photographic print, which were extensive use to elaborate and labor - intensvie.
- In Stieglitz style inclueded different types of components that are compositional choice of natural elements such rain, snow, and steam, which made the photograph, visiually pleasing as a pictorial whole.

Equivalent, Stieglitz 

- As the movement grows - Stieglitz' style changes various of tmes to Cubism and similar to avande - garde art that is combines his own experssion in giving out that expressional meaning from urban atomsphere at the time.
- 1917 - Photography had begun to shift into another movement.
- The best way in proving the legitimacy of phtography, was to show how that this creative medium can have an appearance of drawing, prints or watercolour.
- The medium and style of Stieglitz had changed once again as he supported Strand and Sheeler - with a new approach to photography. 
- The idea of the fragmented sense of self - modern life.
- The idea that a personality, like the outside world - which is changing/not the same.
- The realisation that truth in the modern world is relative - photographs are much of an expression of the photograpeher's feelings and thoughts.
- Stieglitz's series of picture clouds were unedited protraits of the sky that the feelings of Stieglitz emotional expression and experience, when snapping the shutter.
- Stieglitz's final photographs empasize geometric form of the city - exquirely composed and printed - serial with nature - showing the fragmented nature of modern life.


References 
The Metropolitan Musem of Art. Alfred Stieglitz (1864 -1946) and American Photography. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm (Accessed on 12 th Febaray 2016)