Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)
Stieglitz was interested in promoting
photography as an art. He called his movement pictorialism and naturalism.
Pictorialism meant the used the camera as a tool, as same as brush for painting.
Naturalism is more about exploring the human beauty in hispictures, where he
focuses on a particular object making everything else look blurring.
Stieglitz then moved his thoughts to
photographs resembling more likephotographs than a work of paint brush.
In his photographs, he focuses on themain subject, with sharp contrasts of
black, white and grey.
Stieglitz would wait for a natural environment to click his perfect picture.
Stieglitz favored a slightly different approach in his own work. Although he
took great care in producing his prints, often making platinum prints—a process
renowned for yielding images with a rich, subtly varied tonal scale—he achieved
the desired affiliation with painting through compositional choices and the use
of natural elements like rain, snow, and steam to
unify the components of a scene into a visually pleasing pictorial whole
Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to
prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as
painting or sculpture.
Stieglitz wanted to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as
painting or sculpture
