Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 17 Alfred Stieglitz |
The Steerage
The Photography Debate ~ About the Artist ~ About this Object ~ Immigrants in the United States ~ Look Questions ~ Think Questions
Key Points
- As an artist and an advocate of photography as a fine art, Alfred Stieglitz revolutionized modern photography.
- Stieglitz considered The Steerage a perfect photograph because of the relationships of shapes in it and the deep human feelings it spontaneously captured.
- The Steerage shows immigrants returning to their European homelands on the steerage level of a fashionable ship.
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