Famous Photographer #16: Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz was known for making photography an accepted art form. Besides photography, he is known for introducing European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Stieglitz traveled through the countryside in Europe and he photographed peasants working on the Dutch seacoast. Stieglitz was the editor for American Amateur Photographer magazine. He was forced to resign and decided to helped rebuild the New York Camera Club's newsletter. He created an organization called Photo-Secession that was invite-only. He wanted the art world to recognize photography "as a distinctive medium of individual expression." Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery set attendance records, and Stieglitz organized it. Stieglitz took pictures of Dorothy Norman and his wife O'Keeffe and these were some of the first pictures to recognize the isolation of body parts.