Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz was born on January 1, 1864, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the eldest son of German-Jewish immigrants who had prospered in the wool trade. His father, Edward Stieglitz, was a cultured man who valued the arts and provided his children with a privileged upbringing that included private education and, crucially, an extended period of […]
Read MoreEdward Steichen
Edward Jean Steichen was born in 1879 in the village of Bivange, Luxembourg, and emigrated with his family to the United States as an infant, settling in Hancock, Michigan, before the family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His mother encouraged his artistic inclinations, and by the age of fifteen he had begun a four-year apprenticeship at […]
Read MoreLooking at Photographs – John Szarkowski
From Amazon: ‘This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple delectation’, wrote curator John Szarkowski in this first survey of The Museum of Modern Art’s photography collection. Since 1930, when the Museum accessioned its first photograph, it has assembled an extraordinary and wide-ranging collection of pictures for […]
Read MoreMirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 – John Szarkowski
Whe whole book is available on the MOMA web site here: https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_2347_300062558.pdf NOTES: The following handwritten notes are from my MFA research notebook. This book was one of my favourite sources. The handwriting is almost illegible and the spelling worse!
Read MoreThe Photographers Eye – John Szarkowski
From Amazon: The Photographer’s Eye, available again after some years out of print, offers a guide to the medium’s visual language through works by such early masters as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Strand and Weston. In this re-issue, 172 illustrations reveal the extraordinary range of the photograph from the early days of the medium’s development to the […]
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