Photographed by Alfred Stieglitz
Born in 1864 in New Jersey and died in 1946 in New York. He moved with his family in 1871 to Manhattan and to Germany in 1881. He went to school in 1882 as a student of mechanical engineering in the Technische Hochschule (Technical High School) in Berlin. He started photography when he took a photochemistry course in 1883. From then on he was involved with photography, first as a technical and scientific challenge, then later an artistic one. He returned with his family to America in 1890 and became a member of advocate for the school of pictorial photography and photography back then was considered to be a legitimate form of artistic expression.
Stieglitz established the Photo-session group in 1902 and the influential periodical "Camera Work" in 1903. In 1905 he founded the first of his three New York galleries, The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secesion, which eventually came to be Gallery 291.
Stieglitz opened another gallery called The Intimate Gallery; a month later Duncan Phillips purchased his first works from Stieglitz's gallery.
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