Alfred Stieglitz
"What is of greatest importance is to hold a moment, to record something so completely that those who see it will relive an equivalent of what has been expressed."
Founding member of the Photo-Sessionist group, Stieglitz was influential both as a photographer and as magazine editor/gallerist. His Gallery known as '291' was the focus of Modernist painters and photographers.
Stieglitz fought against "the institutional, the academic, the unadventurous," as he searched for the 'unphotographic' -- the vision of both the inner and outer eye. Among his most famous photographs are those of his wife, painter Georgia O'Keefe.
From My Window, New York 1900-02
Evening, New York from the Shelton, 1931
Georgia O'Keefe, Portrait 1918
Reading
Alfred Stieglitz: History of Photography series, Aperture 1976