From 1915 until 1946, some 25,000 pieces of paper were exchanged between two major 20th-century artists. Painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz wrote each other letters — sometimes ...

A rare and pristine platinum print was hiding behind a faded Alfred Stieglitz print auctioned at a Connecticut estate sale last year. Alfred Stieglitz, A Venetian Courtyard (1894). Jeff Sedlik ...

Early in the twentieth century a new spirit appeared in American life… It was a spirit of change, of dissent–in some minds, the spirit even of revolution. Predominantly it was an upsurge of ...

You may know a thing or two about Alfred Stieglitz -- that he was a great early photographer or perhaps that he was married to American modernist artist Georgia O'Keeffe. A photo or two of his may ...

What is a photograph without light? In Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography, Siobhan Angus assembles a history of photography around the elements extracted from the earth that the ...

In the summer of 1875, a smalltown portrait photographer in upstate New York invited an 11-year-old boy to join him in his darkroom. The youngster watched in fascination as faces slowly appeared on ...

Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe were not only exceptional artists, but prolific writers of love letters. The correspondence between these two spans 5,000 letters and 25,000 pages. Sometimes they ...

In 1934, Arthur Dove paid tribute to Alfred Stieglitz, writing, “I couldn’t have existed as a painter without that super-encouragement.” Indeed, it is doubtful that many other early modernists in ...

Like other major American museums, the Metropolitan was slow to recognize photography, but Alfred Stieglitz gave it a big push in the right direction. In 1928 this Photo-Secession pioneer donated 22 ...