Monday Morning Museum: Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz, 1933 by Dorothy Norman

Alfred Stieglitz – Friday 1 January 1864 Hoboken, New Jersey to Saturday 13 July 1946 New York, New York

American Tonalist Photographer

Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918

"Stieglitz photographed me first at his gallery "291" in the spring of 1917. … My hands had always been admired since I was a little girl—but I never thought much about it. He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow—in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways—also my head—and I had to turn this way and that. … Stieglitz had a very sharp eye for what he wanted to say with the camera. When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me—some of them more than sixty years ago—I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives. … His idea of a portrait was not just one picture. His dream was to start with a child at birth and photograph that child in all of its activities as it grew to be a person and on throughout its adult life. As a portrait it would be a photographic diary."

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1978 – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Monday’s Artist – Ellsworth Kelly
Next Monday’s Artist – Jules Bastien-Lepage

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