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"Winter, Fifth Avenue" (1893) by Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an American photographer and art promoter. He is best known for his NYC galleries, "Camera Work" - a photographic journal, and for promoting photography as an art form.
"Winter, Fifth Avenue" was taken in the early 1890s and over the years there have been many different versions. Stieglitz himself exhibited different versions as examples of the effect of cropping and cloning. The version shown below was published in the October 1905 issue of "Camera Work" using the photogravure (intaglio printmaking) technique.
© 2017 Estate of Alfred Stieglitz / Artists Rights Society
an uncropped version
Stieglitz did not have any issues with cropping and/or altering the original image, although I understand some of his contemporaries did...
Note the absence of the railroad ties (see the published version above)
I can recommend looking more deeply into the life of Alfred Stieglitz as it reads like a who's who of the period...
Thanks for looking,
Casey
"Winter, Fifth Avenue" (1893) by Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an American photographer and art promoter. He is best known for his NYC galleries, "Camera Work" - a photographic journal, and for promoting photography as an art form. "Winter, Fifth Avenue" was taken in the early 1890s and over...
A decent introduction video...
Have a look at the following video as an introduction... (running time 1 hour 27 minutes)
Stieglitz' saying is true for all the arts.
However I fail to see any difference from the comparison. Missing railroad ties?
Please compare the second photo with the fourth photo
The third and fourth photos are the same, sorry for that confusion...
A pioneer!
Interesting to see the effect the railroad ties make! Thank you for sharing. Best Blomman
a good example of a small change
having an impact... Not in this photo, but a level horizon also makes a big difference (IMHO).
I am all for....
cropping an image to your heart's content but I do take under serious scrutiny actual image alterations. In this instance I find it acceptable although I do not feel it added anything in particular which would be lacking in an otherwise unaltered photo. C...
I can go both ways depending on the photo... (graphic photo included in this post)
One famously altered photo is John Filo's Pulitzer Prize winning image from the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University in Ohio (USA). As Photographed (cropped version) Altered Photo (missing pole & cropped version) For any not familiar with the ab...
Excellent example.
The appropriate decision for that image was to remove the pole which was coincidentally awkwardly placed so to look as if it is sprouting out the top of the woman's head. Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Filip