Photographs
The Steerage
Photograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- 1907
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 32 × 25.7 cm; Image with black margin: 33.2 × 26.5 cm; Paper: 40 × 27.9 cm
- Photo process
- Photogravure
- Studio or series
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Place of origin
- America
- Acquisition method
- Transfer
- Credit line
- Transferred from Ashcombe City Council, 2019
About this object
With his camera, Stieglitz transformed a scene of impoverished immigrants returning to Europe into a study in shape and form; the image sparked his evolution from a pictorialist into a modernist. Reflecting on his career in 1942, Stieglitz proclaimed this image, taken in 1907, as an achievement of modern art that anticipated Cubism.
Materials and technique
Photogravure
Signature and marks
Written in pencil on recto of mount in lower left: “The Steerage-1907/original Photogravure/Alfred Stieglitz (signed)”
