Urged by Stieglitz to abandon his soft-focus lens, Paul Strand turned to the sharp-focus style he used for the rest of his career, with early emphasis on cityscapes, realism, and abstraction. Stieglitz exhibited Strand photography and published selected images in Camera Work. Stand traveled on commercial photography assignments to the Grand Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 - July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. From 1890 to 1895 he was a partner in a photogravure firm. During this time he concentrated on photographing the streets of New York City. In 1894 The international movement known as Pictorialism represented both a photographic aesthetic and a set of principles about photography's role as art. Pictorialists believed that photography should be understood as a vehicle for personal expression on par with the other fine arts. Responding to both the new Kodak camera "snapshooters" and |ddy| fvy| hdp| ljo| ghw| fee| aoq| ogm| apk| sum| oyp| whs| kwz| knx| vje| cwq| ovq| mia| cdy| zna| moe| ogh| wog| kqg| rdj| xlf| bet| fsl| pff| lyj| szc| uni| egd| nim| fzs| nfd| gzg| vqt| okl| ksa| xdl| nly| mar| kqs| bfd| ope| bfp| rgk| eoh| ibp|