Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz is considered to be the “Father of modern Photography”. He

was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1864 during the Civil War. Stieglitz is

considered to be the father of modern photography because he took the art form

a step further than anyone had before. Before Stieglitz dared to express

photography as an art form, the medium was considered by most to be

“complicated, and cumbersome” and used mostly by professionals as an

objective tool and utilized for its descriptive and recording capabilities. Stieglitz

set out to redefine the art of modern photography. He wanted to display

photograph’s that would shock people and challenge the limits that had

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