Alfred Stieglitz
An American photographer, born in 1881, Alfred Stieglitz was an influential photographer who spent his life fighting for the recognition of photography as a valid art form. He was a pioneering photographer, editor and gallery owner who played pivotal role in defining and shaping modernism in the United States. He took pictures in a time when photography was considered as only a scientific curiosity and not an art. As the controversy over the art value of photography became widespread, Stieglitz began to fight for the recognition of his chosen medium. This battle would last his whole life.
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Georgia O'Keefe
Between 1917 and 1937, Stieglitz shot over 300 portraits of Georgia O'Keefe. Stieglitz believed a portrait needs to be more than just the face to portray the subject's overall experience.
"Stieglitz had a very sharp eye for what he wanted to say with the camera. . . . His idea of a portrait was not just one picture. His dream was to start with a child at birth and photograph that child in all of its activities as it grew to be a person and on throughout its adult life. As a portrait it would be a photographic diary." -Georgia O'Keefe
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