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Snapshot - from my window, New York – Antique Wall Art

Snapshot - from my window, New York, 1907 — historic photograph
Snapshot - from my window, New York, 1907. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Step back in time with Snapshot - from my window, New York, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Made from a window above the street, this 1907 view by Alfred Stieglitz shows New York in winter, with the city reduced to soft shapes and tonal masses. Stieglitz, the leading figure of the Photo-Secession, published it as a photogravure in *Camera Work*, the journal he edited, where it appeared in the October 1907 issue. The title's "snapshot" points to the informal, unposed vantage that many pictorialist photographers were beginning to value over elaborate staging. Notice how the snow and muted light flatten the scene into a quiet study of form.

Created / published1907
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by Alfred Stieglitz. Illus. in: Camera Work, 1907 Oct. 20:41. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Winter scenes; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,063 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147225

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