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a horse drawn carriage traveling down a snow covered street

Alfred Stieglitz was an art dealer, publisher, advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts, and, arguably, the most important photographer of his time. Stieglitz was the son of Edward Stieglitz, a German Jew who moved to the United States in 1849 and went on to make a comfortable fortune in the

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an old photo of two people walking in front of a lighthouse with a building behind them

Alfred Stieglitz. Scurrying Home. 1894. Photogravure. 7 3/8 × 5 3/8" (18.7 × 13.7 cm). Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York. 405.1976. © 2025 Estate of Alfred Stieglitz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography

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a black and white photo of hands holding something

This photograph, one of more than three hundred images Stieglitz made of O'Keeffe (1887–1986) between 1917 and 1937, is part of an extraordinary composite portrait. Stieglitz believed that portraiture concerned more than merely the face and that it should be a record of a person's entire experience, a mosaic of expressive movements, emotions, and gestures that would function collectively to evoke a life

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a woman is standing in front of a painting with her hands on top of her head

Poor Georgia O’Keeffe. Death didn’t soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. Twenty-three years later, many continue to dismiss her as a prissy painter of pretty pictures—or, I should say, pretty genitalia. Even when hailed fo [...]

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an abstract black and white photo of waves

Alfred Stieglitz. Equivalent. 1925. Gelatin silver print. 4 11/16 × 3 5/8" (11.9 × 9.2 cm). Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Gift of Georgia O'Keeffe. 44.1950. © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography

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