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...advertising slogan to sell its product, came up with "You press the button, we do the rest." The slogan worked and, with a little help from the corner druggist, cameras sold. George Eastman's success was a bitter pill for a 24-year-old photographer named Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz was not selling a competing product; he was coveting recognition for photography, in particular, his photography, as art.
...Stieglitz was not to win his battle for 35 years. To be sure, during those years Stieglitz was a world famous photographer, exercising a vast degree of influence on a serious photography and considerable amount on painting. But, until 1923, no major American art museum considerable photography enough of an art to include prints in its collections...
...that year the Boston Museum of Fine Arts asked Stieglitz for a set of photographs to inside in its print collection. Early in 1924 Stieglitz sent the Museum 27 prints. The Museum collection now numbers 69 photographs, which are all on display this week. They begin with his early period in Berlin, and trace his artistic progression throughout his career...
Thirteenth Street Promotion. Always precocious, Edith was 14 when she enrolled in Manhattan's National Academy of Design, began haunting Alfred Stieglitz' Intimate Gallery. On a trip to Paris, with her late husband, painter Samuel Halpert, she concluded that European artists had more money and respect than U.S. ones. A year later in 1926 she founded a gallery on 13th Street to help promote contemporary...
JENNINGS TOFEL-Zabriskie. 36 East 61st. The first exhibition since the death in 1959 of this protégé of Alfred Stieglitz takes a long look at the last 20 years of his career. During that time Tofel did not change much: he is always expressionist, always crowds his canvases with strange, misshapen humans and animals. His palette brightens, but the symbolism remains cloudy. Through March...