Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-26623-0
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

Reihe: Defining Moments in American Photography

When, in 1907, Alfred Stieglitz took a simple picture of passengers on a ship bound for Europe, he could not have known that The Steerage, as it was soon called, would become a modernist icon and, from today's vantage, arguably the most famous photograph made by an American photographer. In complementary essays, a photo historian and a photographer reassess this important picture, rediscovering the complex social and aesthetic ideas that informed it and explaining how over the years it has achieved its status as a masterpiece. What aspects of Stieglitz's ideas and sometimes-murky ambitions help us understand the picture's achievements? How should we assess the photograph in relation to Stieglitz's many writings about it? The authors of this book explore what The Steerage might mean in at least two senses--by itself, as a grand and self-sufficient work, and also ineluctably bound up with the many stories told about it. They make the photograph, today, what Stieglitz himself made it over the years--a photo-text work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Francisco, Jason

McCauley, Elizabeth Anne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lee, Anthony W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Einzelne Fotografen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Anthony W. Lee

The Making of a Modernist Myth

Elizabeth Anne McCauley

The Prismatic Fragment

Jason Francisco

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francisco, Jason
Jason Francisco is an acclaimed photographer and the Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Emory University. He is the author of Far From Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory (Stanford, 2006).

McCauley, Elizabeth Anne
Elizabeth Anne McCauley is David H. McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art at Princeton University and the author of Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris 1848-71 (Yale, 1994).