Alfred Stieglitz's Recognition Of Photography As Art

Eadward Muybridge and Cornelius Jabez Hughes, two photographers of the 19th century, introduced revolutionary ideas impacting the way photographs could be taken, categorized, and used. Muybridge, better known as the ‘father of the motion picture,’ studied landscape photos and invented a device that drastically improved their quality. In addition, he helped to pioneer work in the studies of motion and motion-picture projection. Hughes developed new technology related to photography and helped to guide many other amateur photographers into producing better forms of photography. The two had lasting impacts on the growth and importance of photography in the art, science, and everyday realms.

While emotions were extremely high in the sense of angst for a better life, photography provided a new sense of reality to Americans and for others around the World. Photography all around the World is unlike anything else of its kind. People are able to tell stories and elicit emotions that bring the audience to that desired response. Throughout the 1930’s, photography from governmental institutions or advancements alone brought a new beginning to the end of a terrible time that Americans all around the nation

For this essay the works of Robert Draper, author of “Why Photos Matter,” and Fred Ritchen, author of “Photography Changes the Way News is Reported,” will be analyzed. Though both deal with the topic of photography, their take on the matter is very different. While Ritchen is a photographer who writes on “what professional photographers will be doing in the future,” Draper is a writer for the National Geographic writing on how the photographers of the magazine share “a hunger for the unknown.” Both writers, however, write on the topic of photographers having a deeper understanding of their subjects, Ritchen due to research and practice, and Draper because the photographers “sit [with] their subjects, just listening to them.” In both essays the need for a deeper understanding of the

No matter it’s effect, photography was and is very pivotal throughout society. Photography can be a beautiful but yet haunting form of art. It displays an image which is characterizing

The photograph is a very powerful medium. The French painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed upon seeing an early photograph “from now on, painting is dead!” (Sayre, 2000). Many critics did not take photography seriously as a legitimate art form until the 20th century. With the

In the first episode of “Ways of seeing”, John Berger explores the change of people’s judgement and understanding of art after the invention of the camera. Throughout the video, Berger explains how a camera’s angles, distance and features, such as zoom-ins and zoom-outs can affect one’s perception of fine art and how art has become ambiguous. This essay is going to explore how the invention of the camera and its features can provide several interpretations to art pieces and images.

Leading up to the 19th century portrait painting had been a practice only for the noble or exceptionally wealthy. Overtime portraits were becoming more available to the greater public through miniatures, silhouettes, and camera lucida drawings. Then the invention of the camera came in the 19th century and portraits would become available to anyone. As more people entered the photography world a new profession began called portrait photography. Portrait photography uses the aesthetic guidelines set by portrait painters to set up their portraits. On the other hand painters would use photographs or negatives as a way to keep exactitude while painting. The artist would sometimes team up to work in studios like Albert Sands Southworth and

Photography is not only about the colors ,exposure or something like that! for my understanding to the photography, the photography is the story which fail to put into words. as a great article, it must be impressed people and make people thinking deeply. similarly, the photography for me is not just a simple looking, it's about feeling. because the photography is an art of observation. As a great photographer Robert Frank once said that "there is one thing the photograph must contain , the humanity of the moment". At the early time, I consider be a "VICTORIA'S SECRET" photographer is the most attractive job as a male photographer. but after I have seen Robert Frank's most famous work "The Americans", It had changed my understanding of the meaning of photography. the people considered it as one of most seminal work 20th century image because his works altered the way americans looked at themselves, the truly one. what it teaching me? the great photography is not about depth of field , but depth of

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Alfred Stieglitz became interested in photography as a young boy. In 1890, at 26 years of age, Stieglitz moved to New York to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or structure. In 1902, after becoming a solo photographer, Stieglitz became the editor of “ Camera Notes,” using his favorite quote, “ Like none of none photographer, and their pictures”. In this quote he meant that the beauty and creativity of this photo is like none of any other, and only this photography can make it seem this way.

Photography generated a sentiment of art because it could stop time in a single frame. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” (Warhol, 1975)  was something stated in Andy Warhol’s loosely formed autobiography. A perfect example of this is the series of prints that were taken by Eadward Muybridge in the 19th century, called The Horse in Motion (Fig 9). These photographs were taken to prove that the horse fully left the ground when it ran. This displayed the beginning of the truth within art, these snap shots of daily life could settle certain debates like, what falls faster between a plate or a glass. There is clear influence from cubist painting within photography, research has found that Pablo Picasso's, Le Guitariste (Fig 10) is similar to another Paul Strand photograph From the Ei, 1915, where the painters were breaking form

Separate from the Dada movement developing in Switzerland, a similar moment was developing in New York, lead by a periodical called Camera Work by Alfred Stieglitz. He believed that he could not only show the world through photography, he could make his own (Richter 81). He and a small group of young painters, with the help of a gallery by the name of “291” helped create a new concept of art that married the ideas of photography and painting, which was debuted in 1913 in a exhibition called the “Armory Show,” the focus of

Approaching the turn of the twentieth century, photography was used mainly scientifically, to gather data and make observations. Aside from some independent portrait work, the camera was not considered a highly artistic instrument. Cameras were barely given a second look in aristocratic artistic circles. The idea that photography could not be art met challenges in Britain by the Pictorial movement, the vision of photography similar in subject to impressionist paintings that aimed to make viewers emotional. This movement took a heavy foothold at a time when cameras were just entering the consumer market; later making it’s way across the pond to America. It is evident when comparing the work of Gertrude Kasebier, who photographed in the

To test the validity of the statement ‘All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence.’ (Bazin 1967: 13), one has to first define what is meant by art. This commentary is going to examine this statement using three different definitions of art, Bazin’s, Tolstoy’s and Arnheim’s definitions.

Amongst new developments, photographic technology became a standard for realistic images, and thirty years down the road, it would become the most accurate way to capture a scene. The largest potential threat photography posed to the painters of the modern era, was that the camera was becoming more common and accessible to the public, who did not need years of instruction and discipline to operate. This new technology, that could capture scenes with unmatched detail from sculpture, paint, or drawing, forced the artists to change

There was a controversy in terms of photography being considered a form of art. Its versatility deriving into diverse areas such as scientific photography and commercial one makes it hard to be considered a medium of its own artistically. Nowadays, photographs are commonly accepted as an art form being exhibited in museums and galleries. However, it wasn't a breeze originally. The time photography first came into public eyes, there were a lot of doubts cast on photographers about whether or not they could be considered as artists.