In Focus: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

By Alfred Stieglitz and Weston Naef

Book Overview

This latest volume in the acclaimed In Focus series examines the life and work of Alfred Stieglitz, concentrating on the Getty Museum's considerable holdings of the work of this American master. In his studies of his wife, Georgia O'Keefe, in his portraits of the urban scene, and in his pictures of natural form, Stieglitz defined the modern movement on photography. In his periodical Camera Work he championed photography as an art form; in his famous gallery "An American Place," he promoted the work of other American modernists. Fifty reproductions with commentaries by Weston Naef, the Getty's curator of photographs, represent both the range of the Getty's collection and the importance of Stieglitz's contribution. The book also includes an edited colloquium on Stieglitz's life and work. Participants included Emmit Gowin, Sarah Greenough, Charles Hagen, John Szarkowski, and Weston Naef.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892363037
• ISBN13: 9780892363032
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

One of the original greats of photography.

Steiglitz is one of the great masters of the art of photography. Married to producing quality material, his work will never be "out of style." In addition, today's media obsessed population can find excitement in the stories of his personal life with Georgia O'Keefe. So it seems as though there's something for all.