Alfred Stieglitz valuation
American photographer, publisher and gallery owner who helped make photography an accepted art form.
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, moved with his family to Europe in 1881 and returned to New York, where he edited Camera Notes and then founded the Photo-Secession and the journal Camera Work.
What a work by Alfred Stieglitz is worth
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Bio
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, moved with his family to Europe in 1881 and returned to New York, where he edited Camera Notes and then founded the Photo-Secession and the journal Camera Work. In 1905 he opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue, which introduced many avant-garde European artists to the United States. His photographs include The Steerage (1907) and the Equivalents (1925–1934), a series of cloud studies. He was married to the painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
Prints made by Stieglitz himself are scarce and rarely come to market. Most of what appears is photogravures from Camera Work, which were published in numbers and are often sold singly or in groups. A buyer will want to know whether a picture is a gravure or a photograph, and for a photograph, its medium, date and history of ownership, since the National Gallery of Art in Washington holds the key set of his prints. Gravures should be checked for foxing, tears and staining, and platinum or gelatin silver prints for fading and creases.
At a glance
- Born
- 1 January 1864, Hoboken
- Died
- 13 July 1946, New York City
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