Photograph or Moving Image by ForeignPhotographer/Artist
Inventory Number
84-PHF-130
One of the leading figures of modern photography in the United States, Alfred Stieglitz dedicated himself to the promotion of photography as a fine art, founding the Photo-Secession movement, a group of like-minded photographers, and also publishing the magazine Camera Work.
Capturing the cluttered atmosphere of the crowded third-class cabins, this is one of the best-known American photographs of its time. It was taken when the Kaiser Wilhelm II, the largest and fastest passenger ship of the day, called in at Plymouth, England, on its way to Europe. However, it was not published until four years after it was taken. The work marked a turning point for Stieglitz, who had previously published landscape photographs in the style of paintings, but now aimed for “straight photography” that captured the world as it was seen.
(KIMURA Eriko)
One of the leading figures of modern photography in the United States, Alfred Stieglitz dedicated himself to the promotion of photography as a fine art, founding the Photo-Secession movement, a group of like-minded photographers, and also publishing the magazine Camera Work.
Capturing the cluttered atmosphere of the crowded third-class cabins, this is one of the best-known American photographs of its time. It was taken when the Kaiser Wilhelm II, the largest and fastest passenger ship of the day, called in at Plymouth, England, on its way to Europe. However, it was not published until four years after it was taken. The work marked a turning point for Stieglitz, who had previously published landscape photographs in the style of paintings, but now aimed for “straight photography” that captured the world as it was seen.
(KIMURA Eriko)