Dorothy Norman
Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place

Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place

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Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place
Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place
ArtistAmerican, 1905–1997
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place
Date1934, printed c. 1950
Place depictedNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 3 7/16 × 2 11/16 in. (8.7 × 6.8 cm)
Sheet: 3 7/16 × 2 11/16 in. (8.7 × 6.8 cm)
Mount: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins
Object number2015.637
Non exposé

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Photography
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DescriptionAt the start of the 20th century, the photographer, publisher, and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was the most influential advocate for a painterly Pictorialist approach to photography, but by the late 1910s he had renounced such ideas and embraced the straightforward language of the medium. His own portrait, made in 1934 by his acolyte and mistress Dorothy Norman, is one such picture, relying equally on the master’s somewhat dour collaboration and Norman’s deliberate framing of the scene, posed in Stieglitz’s gallery “An American Place.”
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 4–July 5, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso of mount in pencil top right corner: HG-105
center: G292 496 / Alfred Steglitz X-AAP- / in full length cape / New York 1934
bottom right: (Var: DNHA) / K12 / R6
verso bottom left in pencil: Dorothy Norman
verso of mount lower left a stamp: ORIGINAL BY / DOROTHY NORMAN

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