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Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set - Volume I & II: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarah Et Al. Greenough
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 302032
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 2
Pages: 1100
Shipping Weight (lbs): 19.4
Dimensions (in): 16 x 11.7 x 5.3
ISBN: 0810935333
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.92
EAN: 9780810935334
ASIN: 0810935333
Publication Date: August 1, 2002
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Product Description
Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). This luxurious two-volume boxed set is the definitive catalogue of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the most complete Stieglitz holding in existence, donated to the gallery by his widow, artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Numbering 1,642 photographs, the collection represents the full range of the master photographer's work-from early studies made in Europe, to views of the majestic New York skyline, to incomparable intimate portraits of O'Keeffe. Coinciding with a major traveling exhibition and providing complete scholarly apparatus and a chronology, this sumptuous volume demonstrates how Stieglitz absorbed the most advanced artistic concepts of his time into photography and transformed the medium forever.
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 A wonderful set August 18, 2008
Besides the fact this weighed more than my mom(a joke) I considered it
a great review of Steiglitz's work .Yes a number of pictures are not poster size but you still get the feel of the age, the man, and my favorite artist Georgia O Keeffe at a turning point in her life, I would highly recommend it.
A museum in your home! April 3, 2008
An important contribution to the history of photography, this book is a monumental task in cataloging and comparing Stieglitz's opus. At 1000 pages (including index, bibliography etc), it is massive, but so is the quality of the binding, the printing, the paper. A pleasure to hold in your hand (if you can lift it!).
Regarding the content, it really is an almost complete history of Stieglitz's photography including the mundane and experimental photography (endless pictures of clouds). What I find interesting are the subtle variations in photos as well as prints of the same picture for a different effect. If you are a student, I hope you can afford it. If you are a scholar and a historian, all of photography's early greats are there, and if you are a lover a photographer like me then you really will enjoy the whole experience. These books are as much reference as "coffee book", so they will keep on giving you for many years to come.
magnificent publication December 13, 2007
My first review - I just couldn't let this go by without comment. There are lots of books by and about Stieglitz, and you can look through fine reproductions of Camera Works and watch the DVD. But you won't get a real feel for his photographic work until you spend some time with this beautiful 2 volume set. The hundreds of images, thoughtfully grouped, with quotes and background details, will open your eyes to the scope of his photography, and the amazing blend of subtlety, sensitivity and fun it conveys. And of course the image quality is sumptuous.
A lot of enjoyment and learning March 22, 2007
For this collection O'Keefe chose the best print of every mounted photo in Steiglitz's collection at the time of his death. I just flip through ten or twelve pages a night. As another reviewer said, they are small. But I just get close and enjoy. This is an unparalleled opportunity to fathom the mind of a master. If you want Steiglitz to be your teacher this is the way.
Outstanding set, fine quality reproductions October 31, 2005
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is a major contribution to the field of artistic photography and art history, and frankly, I am not sure what the previous reviewer was looking at or for when giving this award-winning set one out of five stars (it was rated "outstanding art publication of the year" by the Art Libraries Society of North America in 2002).
Greenough's 2-volume set is a standout in numerous ways. For starters, it is the first retrospective work that has attempted to establish some kind of chronological order to Stieglitz's photographs (many of his major works were never dated previously). Why is this important? Stieglitz was extremely influential not only as an artist but as a technician, introducing new photo cropping and printing methods at a time when photography was just starting out as a field of study. Without dates for his photographs, it had previously been impossible to determine for certain whether Stieglitz was employing (or improving upon) techniques that were already out there, or if he was forging ahead into unknown territory.
The scholarship undertaken here is impressive: in addition to the dating of all the material, Greenough provides copious notes about the images, including invaluable information about the reproduction process. There is a detalied appendix, bibliography, index, and concordances, as well as information of other Stieglitz photographs in other collections.
Apart from the scholarship, however, what makes this set standout is the quality and quantity of the images. There are over 1600 photographs in this set, and only about a third of them had ever been reproduced before. Many of the images here are print variants that Stieglitz produced from the same negative, showing how he experimented with printing (using carbon, platinum, gelatin silver, and palladium among other materials) as well as cropping/orientating/mounting of his prints. These images give us a more complete picture Stieglitz's thought processes in terms of his art, his experimental nature, and the methods he employed in presenting his vision to the world.
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