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Alfred Stieglitz — From My Window at the Shelton, West
Alfred Stieglitz

From My Window at the Shelton, West

1931

Shot from the artist's residence in Manhattan's Shelton Hotel, the photograph transforms the urban landscape into a study of light and shadow that bridges his earlier pictorialist work with his later embrace of sharp-focus modernism.

Medium
Gelatin silver print

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Alfred Stieglitz, From My Window at the Shelton, West, 1931

Shot from the artist's residence in Manhattan's Shelton Hotel, the photograph transforms the urban landscape into a study of light and shadow that bridges his earlier pictorialist work with his later embrace of sharp-focus modernism.

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Year
1931
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Photography, New York, Serene, American, Modernist, Landscape, Gelatin Silver Print, Urban, Black and White, 1930s

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art