Word: stieglitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor painters of early modernism. In Paris, where he lived for 30 years, Bruce had helped Matisse set up his art school. He was a friend of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, admired by Duchamp and the Steins. As a painter, he had the kind of precise, narcissistic talent-Alfred Stieglitz is said to have compared it to "a cold kiss"-that ensures unpopularity...
...people in them. They say nothing about society or history. They contain no news. The world they tell us about is exceedingly remote from ordinary experience. "It is all very beautiful and magical here?a quality which cannot be described," Adams wrote to his friend the photographer Alfred Stieglitz from Painter Georgia O'Keeffe's ranch in New Mexico in 1937. "You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing...
...other big influence on Adams was Alfred Stieglitz. Adams made a pilgrimage to his New York gallery, An American Place, in 1933. There was a terrifying hour of silence; Stieglitz inspected the prints while his visitor writhed on a steam radiator, there being nowhere else to sit. Stieglitz gave Adams his benediction and, three years later, his first show. Stieglitz appeared to him (as to many other American artists, including Georgia O'Keeffe, whom Stieglitz married) as a father confessor of unfailing probity. "I am perplexed, amazed and touched at the impact of his force on my own spirit...
...Adams made a living from commercial work of every kind: advertising photography, industrial brochures and journalistic work for magazines like FORTUNE and LIFE. His letters to Stieglitz were full of scorn for his commercial patrons. But in the meantime he was earning, among other colleagues, a reputation as the least socially committed of serious American photographers. As Henri Cartier-Bresson once remarked, "The world is falling to pieces?and Weston and Adams are doing pictures of rocks!" Adams refused to deal with the standard subjects of post-Depression America, the breadlines, Okies, rallies and bums. When he photographed a Japanese...
Similar stories of steep appreciation can be told about the work of almost every other major 20th century photographer: Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, W. Eugene Smith, Diane Arbus and Imogen Cunningham, among the dead; Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer, Paul Caponigro, and Fashion Photographers Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, among the living. The great pictures of the 19th century are more expensive still. Last May two albums containing 100 early California and Oregon scenes by Carleton E. Watkins were sold for $198,000. "A print is amusing at $100," quips one art dealer...