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This volume weaves together biographical, historical, and artistic strands to present a colorful tapestry of the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz's (1864-1946) early life and work, concentrating on his formative years and photographic works before 1917. This work includes photographs Stieglitz took in Europe, his first works in the United States, and Katherine Hoffman's new photographs of important sites in young Stieglitz's life. The author...

This monumental collection is the first book to recreate the 1902 exhibit of revolutionary NY photographers, with 100 color plates complemented by text from noted art scholar William Innes Homer. This beautiful book and remarkable tribute to Stieglitz and his contemporaries is a must for all lovers and students of photography.

A collection of correspondence between American artist Marsden Hartley and avant-grade impresario and photographer Alfred Stieglitz, this work chronicles the painter's three-year-plus European pilgrimage before and during the inception of WW1.

"The Illuminating Mind in American Photography looks at the ideas, images and lives of four major twentieth century American photographers: Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Paul Strand (1890-1976), Edward Weston (1886-1958), and Ansel Adams (1902-1984). The Illuminating Mind unearths archival manuscripts and forgotten publications, and reveals unrecognized psychological intricacies to these men as they progressed through their careers. It is a kind of...

In this book [the author] draws upon her close association with Stieglitz and upon his own words to create a warm portrait of the focal figure of the modern art movement in America. The many direct quotations preserve in written form the bold, subtle nature of Stieglitz's speech and the brilliance of his parables and anecdotes. The 80 reproductions of Stieglitz's photographs constitute the largest selection ever published. Many are reproduced here...

An "evanescent shadow, a delicate, just perceptible image, the trace of a small plant on a field of periwinkle blue." With this description of one of the very earliest photographic experiments, Maria Morris Hambourg begins the riveting story of photography's first century, a story that concludes on the eve of World War II with the dramatic photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Walker Evans, images imprinted indelibly into the consciousness...