Spring showers, New York – Historic Print
(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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Spring showers, New York
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Stieglitz's photogravure shows a rain-soaked New York street, with the wet pavement and gray spring weather that give the title its meaning. He made the image in 1900, during the years when he was championing photography as a fine art and working to show that a camera could produce soft, painterly tonal effects. The photogravure process, which printed from an etched copper plate, suited that goal, and the plate was reproduced in *Camera Work*, the journal Stieglitz edited, in October 1911. An old caption card links the scene to street cleaning, but that note is unverified, so the rain itself is the safest guide to what the picture records.
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photogravure. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1900 |
| Subjects | Photogravure by Alfred Stieglitz. Illus. in: Camera Work, Oct. 1911. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--1900; Street cleaning; Photog. I.; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,220 × 3,864 px · prints to 11 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137790 |
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