Main entry:

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.

Title & Author:

Stieglitz on photography : his selected essays and notes / compiled and annotated by Richard Whelan ; bibliography of Stieglitz's writings compiled, with a preface by Sarah Greenough.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, NY : Aperture Foundation, ©2000.

Description:

xxvi, 285 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Chronological bibliography of the published writings of Alfred Stieglitz": pages 259-268.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
From Writings and Conversations of Alfred Stieglitz -- A World or Two about Amateur Photography in Germany -- A Day in Chioggia -- Cortina and Sterzing -- from Notes Made by Stieglitz -- A Plea for Art Photography in America -- The Platinotype Process and the New York Amateur -- The Joint Exhibition at Philadelphia -- A Plea for a Photographic Art Exhibition -- Two Artistis' Haunts / Alfred Stieglitz and Louis H. Schubart -- My Favorite Picture -- Pictorial Photography in the United States, 1895 -- The Hand Camera -- Its Present Importance -- The Photographic Year in the United States -- A Natural Background for Out-of-Doors Portraiture -- Night Photography with the Introduction of Life -- Platinum Printing -- The Progress of Pictorial Photography in the United States -- Pictorial Photography -- I Photograph the Flat-Iron Building -- from the Origin of the Photo-Secession and How it Became 291 (I) -- The Photo-Secession at the National Arts Club, New York -- Painters on Photographic Juries.
General Cesnola and the Metropolitan -- Modern Pictorial Photography -- Camera Work Prospectus -- An Apology -- The Photo-Secession -- The Photo-Secession -- Its Objectives -- Collectors and Artists Proofs -- Some Impressions of Foreign Exhibitions -- from the Origin of the Photo-Secession and How it Became 291 (II) -- Letter to the Members of the Photo-Secession -- Simplicity in Composition -- from the Origin of the Photo-Secession and how it became 291 (III) -- How The Steerage Happened -- The New Color Photography -- A Bit of History -- Twelve Random Don'ts -- Steichen's Morgan and the Metropolitan -- The Magazine 291 and The Steerage -- Our Illustrations -- A Statement -- Is Photography a Failure? -- How I came to Photograph Clouds -- The Boston Museum (1922-23) and the Metropolitan Museum (1926) -- Daily Bread -- A Letter Concerning Exhibition Prints -- Bibliography of the Published Writings of Alfred Stieglitz, Compiled, with a Preface / Sarah Greenough.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Presents essays, notes, darkroom recipes, and more than eighty photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, the man regarded as the father of American photography.

Resources:
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

0893818046 (hardcover)
9780893818043 (hardcover)

Subject:

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 Aesthetics.
Stieglitz, Alfred, (1864-1946)
Stieglitz, Alfred.
Photography.
Photography Philosophy.
Photographers United States Biography.
Photography United States History.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Photographie États-Unis Histoire.
Photographie.
Photographie Philosophie.
Fotografie
Photography, Artistic.
Photographers United States.
United States

Form/genre:

Biography.
Essays.
Writings.
Biographies.
Photography, Artistic.

Added entries:

Whelan, Richard, 1946-2007.
Greenough, Sarah, 1951-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226007
Call No.: TR140.S855.A35 2000
Status: Available