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Equivalent (1926), one of many photographs of the sky taken by Stieglitz.. Equivalents is a series of photographs of clouds taken by Alfred Stieglitz from 1925 to 1934. They are generally recognized as the first photographs intended to free the subject matter from literal interpretation, and, as such, are some of the first completely abstract photographic works of art.
Alfred Stieglitz HonFRPS (/ ˈ s t iː ɡ l ɪ t s /; January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
Georgia O'Keeffe – Hands (1919) by Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe – Hands , also known as Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) , is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1919. It is part of a large group of more than 300 photographs that he took of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe , from 1917 prior to their 1924 marriage, through 1937.
At the start of the 20th century Alfred Stieglitz was the single most important figure in American photography. [4] He had been working for many years to raise the status of photography as a fine art by writing numerous articles, creating exhibitions, exhibiting his own work and, especially by trying to influence the artistic direction of the Camera Club of New York.
This series of works was completed following three summers of instruction at the University of Virginia on Arthur Wesley Dow's design philosophies, which were highly influential in her development as an abstract artist. [1] [2] Early the following year, photographer and art dealer, Alfred Stieglitz exhibited some of the drawings at his 291 art ...
Minor White was inspired by Alfred Stieglitz's theory (Equivalents) from the 1920s. [5] [6] It was under Minor's influence that Doren began to photograph what he called Americana Faces which was a documentation of the land and its people from 1960 to 2003. [7] A "face" was not just a human face but included everything in the land and sky.
Autumn – Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe move to an upper-floor apartment in the Shelton Towers Hotel, New York City from where they begin to photograph and paint the views. This year also, Stieglitz begins taking his Equivalents series of abstract cloud photographs.
His series of cloud photographs, known as the Equivalents (1925–1934), shows that O'Keeffe and her husband addressed similar subjects, but had different approaches. [3] "More difficult to assess is the extent to which O'Keeffe and Stieglitz influenced each other’s work", [4] writes art historian Lisa Messinger. "Their subjects are often ...