Web Assignment #4

1. Who was Alfred Stieglitz and why is he noteworthy in the history of photography?

An American photographer who worked for 50 years,  he promoted modern art in a way that contributed to photography becoming an accepted art form. Along with that he ran art galleries in New York. He promoted photography through newsletters that presented such high quality photography that the newsletter rarely profited.

2. Choose a photograph he made, upload it to your blog, and explain why you chose it as your favorite by him.

Out of most of Stieglitz's other work, this photo stuck out to me simply because it contained structures and fashions that don't exist as commonly anymore. Along with that, it tends to have an automatic appeal to it that I could explain for long amounts of time, such as the contrast between the sections of people on the top and bottom of the frame.

3. With what famous painter was he in a relationship? Who was she?  Upload a painting by her that you like.
Extra: How did they influence each other in their art making?

He was in a relationship with Georgia O'Keeffe, a painter who specialized in painting flowers in bloom, but at a zoomed in a detailed scale.

They may have influenced each other in many ways, for one thing, composition applies to both photography and painting. Since Georgia mainly focused on close up paintings, she may have been influenced by Stieglitz to make more zoomed out paintings, while she influenced him in taking more zoomed in photography.