Alfred Stieglitz
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Practical criticism of the photograph, Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907.
How did the evolution of Alfred Stieglitz’ photographic work between 1890 and 1930 reflect the changes take place in American cities, particularly New York City, at that time?
La obra de Georgia O´Keeffe, pionera del modernismo estadounidense, es objeto este año de una gran retrospectiva que viajará por España, Francia y Suiza gracias al esfuerzo de 35 museos. Hasta el 8 de agosto permanecerá en el Museo... more
Published in the exhibition catalogue "Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens," published in 2009. This chapter examines practices by photographers from the Stieglitz circle to the Harlem Renaissance that demonstrate the range of... more
Eğer bir beyazlık varsa odur: Georgia O’Keeffe Tuvallerine sığmaya çalışan zarif ve kırılgan dev çiçeklerin ressamı Georgia O’Keeffe, ilk sergisinden 100 sene sonra TATE Modern’de açılan retrospektifiyle gündeme oturdu. Sanatçının... more
This essay appeared in a special issue of Tribal magazine published in conjunction with the 2012 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde." It discusses how African objects became tied not... more
BC: Before Concrete focuses on two centers where the modern visual poem developed, Paris and New York City. This an overview of individuals adding to the wider development of Latin and Cyrillic alphabets’ visual poem types and movements... more
Examines the December 1914-January 1915 exhibition of Picasso and Braque's work at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery. As the first New York exhibition of 1912-13 Cubism, with its new combination of a spare linear scaffolding and collaged... more
Leader of the French school of pictorial photography, Robert Demachy was very fond of British and American culture. Having been raised in an anglophile environment, he was perfectly fluent in English and, in 1893, he married Adelia... more
From the start, Alfred Stieglitz planned to make "Camera Work" an international endeavor. This ambition is not surprising considering his keen and prior interest for European works and his conception of pictorial photography as a global... more
""The Midwife to Ideas": Alfred Stieglitz and the building of pictorial photography’s memory" / L’influence considérable de la figure d’Alfred Stieglitz sur la photographie américaine dans la première moitié du XXe siècle n’est plus à... more
Stieglitz and the Equivalents
The International Society of Pictorial Photographers was founded in 1905 at the instigation of Alfred Stieglitz, charismatic leader of the Photo-Secession, from an idea developed a few years before by Robert Demachy, leader of the French... more
“"A traitor in the photographic camp"? Robert Demachy and "straight photography" in 1907”
One does not look at rain, one is in rain. The tangibly detectable effect of rain is more difficult: the wet landscape or the drenched child is not a direct index for ‘rain’. To this we must add that rain is far more difficult to depict... more
In Carrefour Stieglitz, ed. Jay Bochner, 275-90.
Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013.
Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013.
L’article explore, dans la perspective de la sémiotique néoclassique, la possibilité d’appliquer au domaine de certains genres photographiques des concepts clés de la sémiotique comme le rapport entre manifestation et signifiant, entre... more
Known as the quintessential painter-photographer in his early career, Edward Steichen (1879–1973) combined artistically renowned compositions with excellence in technique and experimentation. He often created multiple versions of a print... more
Article for “Chioggia. Rivista di Studi e Ricerche”, n. 38, pp-69-79. Libreria editrice “Il Leggio”.
Photographs of artists reside in an ambiguous space between subject and object: they are at once a document, a printed record of an artistic act by the photographer (a work of art), and an image, a tonal rendering of a body that once was... more
L’article explore, dans la perspective de la sémiotique néoclassique, la possibilité d’appliquer au domaine de certains genres photographiques des concepts clés de la sémiotique comme le rapport entre manifestation et signifiant, entre... more
Dutch Art of the Golden Age and Early Photography
Straight fotoğraf, yapay ışığın, öznelerin poz vermesinin, sahne dekoru oluşturmak için eşya, aksesuar kullanımının olmadığı ve karanlık odada herhangi bir manipülasyonun kullanılmadığı fotoğraf tarzıdır. Çoğunlukla siyah-beyaz çalışılan... more