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Alfred Stieglitz

This battle would last his whole life. .
             One of the most famous photographs that Stieglitz took during his lifetime is "The Steerage". In 1907 Stieglitz sailed to Europe on the luxury liner Kaiser Wilhelm II. Below the first-class upper deck, he saw passengers crowded into the less costly steerage level below. The steerage is divided into an upper and lower deck joined by a narrow stairway. Stieglitz made this print of The Steerage for his avant-garde publication Camera Work, in 1911. The upper group consists primarily of darkly dressed men, while the lower crowd is made up mostly of women and children wearing lighter colors. The Steerage is the photograph Stieglitz said he would want to represent him if he could choose only one. He felt that this spontaneous photograph perfectly captured related shapes as well as human feelings. Elements of design include Line because of the moving path in the narrow bridge and positive space filled up by the crowded men and women as well as some kids. Principles of design include contrast which shows differences in value between the upper "darker" people and the lower "lighter" people and Unity because of how the people are close together and are on the same journey. Just like Stieglitz, I believe that this is his best work because of the shapes in the photograph as well as the originality which really stands out above the others. The photograph really exposes the people's emotions and almost made me feel as though I was in that luxury liner.
             Taken in 1902 and produced in 1933, "The Hand of Man" was also one of Stieglitz's famous works of art. In this photo, a locomotive engine steams toward the camera on its barely visible tracks, wearing a billowing black cloud of smoke like a plumed hat. The criss-crossing lines of tracks beside it snake off toward the horizon and the telephone poles at left appear to be making the same march. Alfred Stieglitz's composition is a display on the importance of the machine in the modern Industrial Age.


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