THE STEERAGE
The below link will lead you directly to the article
which is being reviewed, the article in question is about a picture produced by
the famous American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, named The Steerage, dated
1907.
Starting with the source itself, being the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, it can be said that this is a primary source, since the museum
holds the named image in one of the several collections in hold. Hence a deep
study of the image and its detail is possible thanks to a direct reference to
this image in particular.
The
article starts by introducing Alfred Stieglitz directly with the connection to
the photographic publications namely Camera Notes and Camera works of which he
was the author also as the proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo
Secession. These sources enable a person to further research on the connections
between the photographer himself and his creations apart the photographic work
itself. Back to the image named The Steerage, it is stated that this is the
artist’s transformation from the ordinary subjects to the documentation of
everyday life. In earlier work Stieglitz already started to make a transition
from the ordinary image into capturing everyday life events as an art form,
such as in the image named “Winter – Fifth Avenue” produced in 1893.
The image displayed enables a general view of the photography produced by Stieglitz, three other images can be accessed to display a larger view on the most relevant parts with more in depth detail which are vital.
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| The Steerage (1907) by Alfred Stieglitz |
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