Alfred Stieglitz, Self Portrait at 291, 1915
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
291 Fifth Avenue was the address of Alfred Stieglitz’s first gallery, the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, commonly known as “291.” Stieglitz opened the gallery in 1905, promoting and exhibiting fine art photography in what had formerly been Steichen’s studio. 291 would soon offer Americans their first opportunity to see exceptional modern painting in exhibitions featuring the Europeans Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, and Paul Cézanne, and the Americans John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley. Steichen’s portrait of Stieglitz, made shortly before Stieglitz closed 291 in June 1917, captures the bristling power of this persuasive early advocate of the avant-garde.
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Walter Pickering
Self-portrait with his daughters, Gersau, Switzerland (1886)
David Hettinger (b. 1946), Jordan
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Walker Evans
Girl in Fulton Street, New York, 1929
Gelatin silver print
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Girl in Fulton Street, New York, 1929
Gelatin silver print
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Cow parade
Smithie style inspiration!Smith students attending a lecture, 1949.
September 18, 1929. “Mr. & Mrs. Lindbergh.” Aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, four months after they married, at Bolling Field en route to South America. Charles, the pioneering aviator, was probably the most famous person in America at the time; Anne would become an accomplished aviator in her own right, as well as one of the best-selling writers of the 20th century. Some three years after this picture was taken, the tragedy of their child’s murder helped define the modern phenomenon of mass-media super-celebrity. From Anne’s February 2001 obituary in the New York Times: “Nothing, not even Lindbergh’s 1927 landing in Paris, had prepared them for the carnival of reporters, photographers, con artists, curiosity-seekers, vandals and crazy people who invaded their lives after their baby was kidnapped. Americans would not experience a similar flood of publicity until the O. J. Simpson murder trial of the 1990s.”
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Jackson Pollock paints in his Long Island studio, 1949.
In honor of 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, TIME presents a gallery of the painter’s life. See more here.
