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| In Focus: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
     
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Paperback
144 pages
J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
Published 1995
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It's hard to imagine what another book about Stieglitz, the most written-about figure in American photography, could contribute. Well, this one offers some unfamiliar images and, more notably, an essay arguing that Stieglitz did his best work late in life at his family retreat at Lake George, New York. Photographic curator and historian John Szarkowski is responsible for the latter, which advances a Stieglitz who in the late work turned from public themes and public life to personal symbols (clouds and dying poplar trees) and to sweetly human descriptions of friends, young women, and, of course, his fascinating wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. Whether these late pictures are Stieglitz's best is really still an open question. Contradicting the self-mythologizing of his earlier work, however, these 93 photographs, full of a heartfelt directness, show him to be a man like other men, who appreciated beauty, the weather, family, friends, and home. Gretchen Garner
Book Description
This latest volume in the acclaimed In Focus series examines the life and work of Alfred Stieglitz, concentrating on the Getty Museum's considerable holdings of the work of this American master. In his studies of his wife, Georgia O'Keefe, in his portraits of the urban scene, and in his pictures of natural form, Stieglitz defined the modern movement on photography. In his periodical Camera Work he championed photography as an art form; in his famous gallery "An American Place," he promoted the work of other American modernists. Fifty reproductions with commentaries by Weston Naef, the Getty's curator of photographs, represent both the range of the Getty's collection and the importance of Stieglitz's contribution. The book also includes an edited colloquium on Stieglitz's life and work. Participants included Emmit Gowin, photographer, Sarah Greenough, curator of photographs at the National Gallery, Charles Hagen, critic for the New York Times, John Szarkowski, former curator of photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, and Weston Naef. |
An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession
Jay Bochner (Author) |  |
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Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics
Marcia Brennan |  |
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O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance
Benita Eisler |  |
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Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
Sarah Greenough |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set the Alfred Stieglitz Vol I & II Collection of Photographs....
Sarah Greenough |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: Photography at the Musée d’Orsay
Françoise Heilbrun |  |
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Stieglitz: A Beginning Light
Katherine Hoffman |  |
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Stieglitz and the Photo Secession, 1902
William Innes Homer; & Catherine Johnson (Editor) |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: Scientist, Photographer, and Avatar of Modernism, 1880-1913 (Studies in the Fine Arts)
Geraldine Wojno Kiefer |  |
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Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography
Sue Davidson Lowe |  |
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The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe's Enduring Legacy
Therese Mulligan (Editor); George Eastman House; & Laura Downey |  |
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In Focus: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
Weston Naef; & Alfred Stieglitz |  |
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From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography (Writers and Artists on Photography)
Nancy Newhall; & Beaumont Newhall (Introduction) |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer
Dorothy Norman |  |
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The Illuminating Mind in American Photography: Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Adams
David P. Peeler |  |
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Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
Peter-Cornell Richter |  |
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Camera Work: A Pictorial Guide
Alfred Stieglitz |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings
Alfred Stieglitz |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: Aperture Masters of Photography
Alfred Stieglitz; & Dorothy Norman (Contributor) |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography, No 6)
Alfred Stieglitz; & Dorothy Norman (Designer) |  |
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My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915
James Timothy Voorhies (Editor); Alfred Stieglitz; & Marsden Hartley |  |
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