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Alfred Stieglitz — Kitty
Alfred Stieglitz

Kitty

1908

"Kitty" is a lantern slide photograph by Alfred Stieglitz featuring a close study of a cat, demonstrating his characteristic attention to form and texture. Created as a lantern slide, the work was intended for projection and viewing, a medium that allowed Stieglitz to explore photographic qualities of light and shadow with greater subtlety. The image exemplifies Stieglitz's modernist approach to photography, treating an everyday domestic subject with the compositional rigor and tonal refinement typically reserved for fine art.

Medium
Lantern slide

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Alfred Stieglitz, Kitty, 1908

"Kitty" is a lantern slide photograph by Alfred Stieglitz featuring a close study of a cat, demonstrating his characteristic attention to form and texture. Created as a lantern slide, the work was intended for projection and viewing, a medium that allowed Stieglitz to explore photographic qualities of light and shadow with greater subtlety. The image exemplifies Stieglitz's modernist approach to photography, treating an everyday domestic subject with the compositional rigor and tonal refinement typically reserved for fine art.

Medium
Lantern slide
Year
1908
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Intimate, Photography, Early 20th Century, American Artist, Modernism, Portrait, Pictorialism, Black and White, Close-Up, Experimental Technique

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art