Alone on the sidewalks of New York : Alfred Stieglitz's photography, 1892-1913

Author

Lukitsh, Joanne

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Seeing high and low : representing social conflict in American visual culture

Author (monograph)

Johnston, Patricia (Editor, Author of introductory parts, Contributor, Collective Author)

Source

Seeing high and low : representing social conflict in American visual culture. 2006, 210-227, 12 ill.

Publisher

University of California Press, Berkeley, CA (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

On Alfred Stieglitz's reconciling of his elitist ambitions with the low-culture medium of photography. Contends that in Stieglitz's photographs of New York he emphasized the formal and the aesthetic over the social (such as urban conflicts) thus overcoming the medium's low status.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Photography -- United States
• Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
• Photography
• Iconography
• Views
• New York (NY, USA)
• Taste (aesthetics)
• United States
• 1800-2000

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Photographie -- États-Unis
• Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
• Photographie
• Iconographie
• Vues
• New York (NY, USA)
• Goût (esthétique)
• Etats-Unis
• 1800-2000

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00026285

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