Stieglitz

Alfred (1864-1946). American photographer. After studying in Berlin, he returned to New York in 1890 and devoted himself to photography, deepening his understanding of technical matters and expressive qualities related to light. He was very interested in composition and research and briefly acknowledged abstraction. With Edward Steichen and Alvin Langdon Coburn, in 1902 he founded the Photosecession movement and the excellent magazine Camera Work, which published the work of the great artists of the time up until 1917, when it shut down. Stieglitz was also known as a gallery-owner having opened the 291 on Fifth Avenue in 1906 and An American Place in 1929. They showed the work of photographers and artists who were able to influence public taste, for example, Picasso and Matisse, but were also a meeting point and a forum for debates on photographic aesthetics.