Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Alfred Stieglitz was a pioneer of photographic art in America. He was introduced to photography while studying with Hermann Wilhelm Vogel at the Berlin Technische Hochschule. Returning to the United States in 1890, Stieglitz became a partner at the Heliochrome Company, where he experimented with new photogravure chemical techniques and handheld cameras. He soon gravitated to art circles, advocating for the elevation of photography as modern art through the Photo-Secession movement that he cofounded in 1902. He also served as an editor and founder of the journal Camera Work (1903–1917), and he ran the influential gallery 291, in New York City. Through his patronage, Stieglitz introduced European artists and ideals to American audiences; he exhibited many pioneering visual modernists, including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Georgia O’Keeffe, whom he married in 1924.
The Hand of Man appeared in the first issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. Its title alludes both to the transformation of the natural world by humans and the capacity of humans to create…
Alfred Eisenstaedt shot one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century in Times Square, where crowds were gathering to watch the electric news ticker for an anticipated announcement by U…
Bezem (d. 2018)’s art, which once gave expression to his immigration to Palestine, the loss of his parents in the Holocaust, and his sense of rebirth in Israel, was dramatically transformed after his…