Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz · Arts & Literature
Photographer and gallerist who established photography as a fine art and championed modern art in America (gallery 291). Born to a German Jewish family.
1864, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA — 1946, New York City, USA
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Alfred Stieglitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Photographer and gallerist who established photography as a fine art and championed modern art in America (gallery 291). Born to a German Jewish family.
Alfred Stieglitz was a photographer and gallerist who fought to have photography recognized as a fine art, through his journal Camera Work and his New York gallery '291'. That gallery also introduced America to modern European artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Rodin, and to Georgia O'Keeffe. He was born into a German-Jewish immigrant family in Hoboken.
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Photographer and gallerist who established photography as a fine art and championed modern art in America (gallery 291). Born to a German Jewish family.
Source: aish.com; Britannica
