Alfred Stieglitz-Photography as Art- His life and famous piecies

Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was incredibly influential in making photgraphy an accepted fine art form over his 50 year career. He also ran some New York art galeries in the 20’s and was married to Georgia O’keeffe. He was very brights atttending a private school until his junior year of highschool and then went to school in Germany for his last year. He then went off to study mechanical engineering in Berlin  wich is where he was first introduced to photogrpahy. He enrolled in a chemistry class that researched the chemistry of photography. He then submitted work for a holiday contest in a British Magazine named “ Amateur Photographer” where he recieved first for this piece. 

His brother helped him buy a buisness and from their he worked soly on photgroahy and ended up getting a job at the Ameteur photgrapher, writing, regularly. Over all his work showed a great master of technacality; he had tone, texture and revealed different ideas. His later work show a decline in pictorial photogrpahy and a rise about the modern world. 

Here are some of his most famous works:

I choose a variety of pictures, I like the last photo of his wifes hands, though it has a really creepy almost possesed feel to it. I also really like “ To Hold the Moment” the tress with the lights. The two photos are similar in the sense that their both dark and mostly only have two colors.