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The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz. – Historic Reproduction

The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz. — historic print
The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz.. Historic print from the Ellis Island collection.

(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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This historic print of The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz.

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Taken from the upper deck of a transatlantic liner, Alfred Stieglitz's *The Steerage* looks down on third-class passengers gathered on the lower deck, so the ship's class divide is visible in a single frame. Stieglitz made the exposure in 1907 on a return voyage from Europe, and he later reproduced it as a photogravure in *Camera Work*, the journal he edited to promote photography as an art. The image is often cited for its geometry, as slanting lines of deck, rope, and figures flatten into a nearly abstract pattern. For visitors to Ellis Island, where many of these passengers were headed, it offers a view of the crossing before the inspection line.

Medium1 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.).
Genre1907
Notes1907
SubjectsImmigrants--1900-1910. Ships--1900-1910. Passengers--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,989 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171433

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