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Alfred Stieglitz

Ploughing

Description

Maker

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)

Title

Ploughing
Camera Work, no. 12, October, 1905

Year

1904

Medium

  • photogravure

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • photogravure

Supports

  • Japanese Paper

Dimensions

Image: 18.9 x 24.4 cm (7 7/16 x 9 5/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

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

Object Number

2010.119

Type

  • Photographs

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 20: Technologies

Manual: Technologies considers the history and future of art and technology by examining artworks that combine manual techniques and handiwork with non-human productive agents associated with industry or technology. 

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View
Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
Sep 21, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013

Label copy

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.

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Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)
Ploughing; Camera Work, no. 12, October, 1905, 1904
Photogravure
Image: 18.9 x 24.4 cm (7 7/16 x 9 5/8 inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Morris, Jr. 2010.119

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