The Steerage, 1907. Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946). Photogravure; image: 32 x cm (12 5/8 x 10 1/8 in.); image with black margin: x cm (13 1/16 x 10 7/16 in.); paper: 40 x cm (15 3/4 x 11 in.); mounted: x 38 cm (20 x 14 15/16 in.). With his camera, Stieglitz transformed a scene of impoverished immigrants returning to Europe into a study in shape and form; the image sparked his evolution from a pictorialist into a modernist. Reflecting on his career in 1942, Stieglitz proclaimed this image, taken in 1907, as an achievement of modern art that anticipated Cubism.

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Size: 2566px × 3400px
Photo credit: © CMA/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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