The Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume 4

by Elizabeth Anne McCauley and Jason Francisco

When, in 1907, Alfred Stieglitz took a simple picture of passengers on a ship bound for Europe, he could not have known that The Steerage , as it was soon called, would become a modernist icon and, from today's vantage, arguably the most famous photograph made by an American photographer. In complementary essays, a photo historian and a photographer reassess this important picture, rediscovering the complex social and aesthetic ideas that informed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520266234
• ISBN13: 9780520266230
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.9"