Cleveland Museum of Art

The Steerage

Alfred Stieglitz

Date

1907

Medium

photogravure

Culture

America

Department

Photography

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. This print is Alfred Stieglitz’s own, lifelong copy of The Steerage , one of his most important works.

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