The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz.
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Stieglitz made this picture from the upper deck of an ocean liner, looking down at the third-class passengers below, a view that sets it apart from the other ship scenes on this board. Its geometry of slanting decks, railings, and crowded figures reads almost like an abstraction, and it marks a turn in his work away from soft pictorial effects toward the sharper, flatter forms that later defined modernist photography. The subject, immigrants crossing the Atlantic in steerage during the 1900s, reflects the years when millions of people arrived in the United States by sea, many of them traveling in the cramped lower decks.
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photogravure ; 32.0 x 26.1 cm. (12 5/6 x 10 1/8 in.), mounted on board 52.6 x 40.1 cm. (20 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.). |
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| Genre | 1907 |
| Notes | 1907 |
| Subjects | Immigrants--1900-1910. Ships--1900-1910. Passengers--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 819 × 1,024 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218498 |
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