1920's The Arts | Art of Alfred Stieglitz

"How I Came to Photograph Clouds"

Magazine article

By: Alfred Stieglitz

Date: September 19, 1923

Source: Stieglitz, Alfred. "How I Came to Photograph Clouds," Amateur Photographer and Photography 56, no. 1816, 1923, 255. Reprinted in Stieglitz on Photography. New York: Aperture, 2000, 235–238.

Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz

Photographs

By: Alfred Stieglitz

Date: 1922, 1929

Source: "Clouds, Music No. 1, Lake George," "Equivalent." 1922, 1929. George Eastman House.

About the Author: Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), born in Hoboken, New Jersey, was a highly influential photographer, writer, and art dealer. Stieglitz devoted his life to promoting photography as an art form. He was a major supporter of American modernist painting, exhibiting artists such as Arthur Dove and Charles Demuth....