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Alfred Stieglitz

Ploughing, 1904

Description

Maker

  • Alfred Stieglitz, 1864-1946, American

Title

Ploughing

Year

1904

Medium

Photogravure

Materials/Techniques

Supports

  • Japanese Paper

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Morris, Jr.

Object Number

2010.119

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

Alfred Stieglitz was the most prominent spokesperson for photographers who embraced the painterly style known as Pictorialism. The image here by Stieglitz is from Camera Work, a journal founded by Stieglitz in 1903 as part of his larger campaign to establish photography as a fine art. Many of the images published within its pages, such as this, are photogravures meticulously printed from the artists’ negatives on Japanese papers. In this early example of Stieglitz’s work, his heroic portrayal of a worker in the field recalls a subject popular in European painting since the mid-19th century.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Ploughing with the accession number of 2010.119. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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