© Alfred Stieglitz, 1894, A Happy New Year, from “The Photographic Times”
This is my last post in 2012 - enjoy New Year’s Eve and have a wonderful start into 2013.
My New Year’s resolution: finally write a letter to far away friends.
See & read you next year!
All the best, Burnéd
Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (1999) / VIDEO
The span of Alfred Stieglitz’s life, 1864 to 1946, saw some of the most rapid and radical transformations ever to occur in the landscape of American society and culture. Stieglitz witnessed New York transform from a sleeping giant of cobblestone streets and horse-drawn trolleys to a vibrant symbol of the modern metropolis, with soaring skyscrapers becoming visible emblems of a new age. Alfred Stieglitz’s seminal role as artist and art impresario at a time when American culture was redefining its fundamental ways of seeing, thinking and experiencing the world is the subject of the first full-length film biography of the photographer “Alfred Stieglitz – The Eloquent Eye.” (read more)
Read an interview with the filmmaker, Perry Miller Adato, here.
© Alfred Stieglitz, 1910, ‘Old and New New York’
Photogravure; published in Camera Work XXXVI.
“It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York.” (O. Henry alias William Sydney Porter)
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