“The Steerage” by Stieglitz – He loved to recount how Picasso had praised the collage-like dispersal of forms and shifting depths of “The Steerage” |
Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has produced a magical exhibition from its own collection of photographic prints, taken and printed by the first great practitioners who believed photography was art.
For most of the 20th century, photography was the stepchild of the art world. Collectors did not embrace it easily. Suddenly, in the past 30 years, photography started coming on strong and now, at the art fairs, photographs have become some of the most desired pieces in the shows.
Photography is still the affordable collectible fine art. Etchings, silk screens and block prints have all but vanished and are rarely shown in contemporary art gallery exhibitions. Photography and other digital media are now the only two dimensional art shown which are produced in multiples. At market, individual photographic prints can sell from $25 to $500,000.
The photographic prints in this Metropolitan Museum exhibition are some of the most important and rare photographs on this planet.
“The Flatiron” by Steichen |
The three prints of The Flatiron building by Steichen are the only three prints ever made from the negative, printed in 1904, 1905 and 1909. Stieglitz’s photo titled “The Terminal”, a NYC snow scene, and his print titled “The Steerage”, shown at the top of this posting, are two rock stars of photography, beautiful.
“The Terminal” by Stieglitz |
So many great photos I have studied and admired in books over a lifetime are all in these three small rooms, rubbing shoulders with each other. I almost swooned. It is such a privilege to have these rare, famous icons of the history of photography a mere foot in front of your eyes. For me, this exhibition made for a very special day at the museum. Even if you have never heard of these photos before, GO, you never know when or if you will ever see them again. The exhibition is up through April 10, 2011.
Alfred Stieglitz |
Alfred Stieglitz (American, b. Hoboken, NJ, 1864–1946), a photographer of supreme accomplishment as well as a forceful and influential advocate for photography and modern art in America – through exhibitions at his gallery in NYC, “291” and through the publication of his sumptuous journal, Camera Work. He laid the original foundation of the Met’s collection donating the first photographs ever collected by the museum. Ultimately Sieglitz donated over 600 photos he had collected or taken, to the museum.
Edward Steichen (American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973), A painter who became Stieglitz’s protégé and gallery collaborator. He was the most talented exemplar of Photo-Secessionist ideas, rivaling the unique qualities of paintings with his photographs.
Paul Strand (American,b. NYC, 1890–1976), whose photographs from 1915–1917 treated three principal themes—movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits—and pioneered a shift from the soft-focus Pictorialist aesthetic to the straight approach and graphic power of the emerging modernism.
See the Met Collection Database for selected works from this exhibition:
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