Word: stieglitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason that Edward Steichen retired last week was that all this had not been enough for him. To rigorous lovers of photography as an important art, Steichen's achievement, measured against his gifts and his opportunities, was not quite enough either. When Steichen told old Photographer Alfred Stieglitz that he was getting out of business, the impresario of "An American Place" was so pleased he could scarcely speak...
...Stieglitz had a right to his emotion, for he and Steichen together led the U. S. to take photography seriously before the War. At 23 Steichen. who had lived with Rodin in Paris and taken a famed, dramatic photograph of the sculptor, suggested and helped establish in 1902 Stieglitz's gallery at No. 291 Fifth Avenue. First U. S. showings of Rodin's sketches, in 1905, and Matisse's paintings, in 1908. were arranged for "291" by Steichen. Among the "Photo-Secessionists" who were then contributing to Stieglitz's magazine. Camera Work, Steichen did what...
...those days Steichen spelled his first name "Eduard." He was a painter as well as a photographer and his photographs tended to be Whistlerian. Rembrandtesque or merely misty. Stieglitz, who never painted a stroke, was meanwhile doing a number of clear, cold outdoor pictures which have since become classic examples of great photography. In 1917 and 1918 "Eduard'' saw much more of France than he had ever seen before. He saw it from above, as chief of the photographic section of the U. S. Air Service. In aerial photography clarity is the first and last requisite. When...
...Brought out by the Knight Publishers and on sale last week at $50 was a portfolio of twelve paintings by the most renowned woman painter in the U. S., Georgia O'Keeffe. Approved even by irascible Husband Alfred Stieglitz, the color reproductions of O'Keeffe's suave, austere leaves, peonies and roses were comparable to the famed reproductions of Viennese craftsmen...
...like the title," said Alfred Stieglitz. "In fact I hate...