Alfred Stieglitz - Photography as Art
12:38:00 PMAlfred Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and educated as an engineer in Germany. Stieglitz returned to New york in 1890 to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture. He was known for his conviction about the aesthetic potential of the medium and published multiple essays on this topic. After World War I, Stieglitz catalysed the transition to modern art and his photos were no longer as heavily manipulated. His series of portraits Georgia O'Keeffe was well received and is very well known, and encapsulates several modernist ideas about the sense of self, a changing personality, and the relativity of truth in a modern world.
(Source: Met Museum )
This photograph is part of a series of more than 300 images of O'Keeffe between 1917 and 1937. It demonstrates Stieglitz's belief that portraiture concerned more than merely the face and should illustrate a person's entire experience. On this topic he claimed "To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of any person, is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still."
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