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...Secession. The son of Luxembourg immigrants who had settled in Milwaukee, Steichen started out to be a painter. But on his way to Paris in 1900, he stopped long enough in Manhattan to call on the already famous Alfred Stieglitz and to show him some photographs he had taken back home. Photographer Stieglitz looked them over, bought a batch for $5 apiece. "Well," he said as his 21-year-old visitor was leaving, "I suppose now that you are going to Paris you will forget all about photography." Steichen was already in the elevator when he blurted his reply...
Though he also painted-somewhat in the manner of Whistler with a dash of Monet-he kept his word. In 1905 he helped Stieglitz start the Photo-Secession Galleries in New York, a rallying point for those who wanted to "secede from the notion that photography is only literal representation." Steichen wanted to "push out the realm of the camera." He loved "wet days, yellow, foggy days, twilights," and to catch the mood, he would purposely blur the picture by kicking the tripod or wetting the lens. In developing his famed Steeplechase Day, Paris; After the Races, a carefree scene...
...Unforgettable Loneliness. In 1915, when she was teaching art in Amarillo, Texas ("My country-terrible winds and wonderful emptiness!"), Georgia sent some of her charcoal sketches to a friend in Manhattan. The friend in turn took them to Photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who had opened a gallery for unsung artists. Stieglitz was so impressed that he began hanging O'Keeffe paintings alongside his Braques and Marins, and eight years later he and Georgia were married. The partnership lasted until his death in 1946, when the spotlight had already begun to shift to a wilder and more chaotic kind of abstraction...
Pablo Picasso once took a look at a 1907 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz and exclaimed, "That man is working in the same direction I am!" Picasso spoke for the small group that had long realized that a great photographer is also a great artist. But one pesky question remains: Since even a bad or indifferent photographer-unlike a bad painter-can by accident produce a great picture, how much is art and how much is fortuitous subject matter? Last week, in Manhattan, the question was noisily reopened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of 176 photographs...
...Sister of Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, sister-in-law of Georgia's late famed husband, Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...