The Terminal MET DP232977 (color corrected)

''The Terminal'' is a black and white photograph taken by

Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was kno ...

in 1893. The photograph was taken in

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using the small 4 x 5 camera, which was a more practical instrument to document the city life than the 8 x 10 view camera, who could only work with a tripod.

History and description

This is one of the pictures that Stieglitz took using this medium, following his aim to elevate photography to an art status. Stieglitz described the origin of this picture: "From 1893 to 1895 I often walked the streets of New York downtown, near the East River, taking my hand camera with me... ne dayI found myself in front of the old Post Office... It was extremely cold. Snow lay on the ground. A driver in a rubber coat was watering his steaming car horses." The picture is devoid of any romantic intention, just depicting the driver watering his horses in front of the Astor House. Stieglitz work can be seen as an example of pictorialism and what would be called later

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Public collections

There are prints of this photograph at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,

, the

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, Washington, D.C., the

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and the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles.

References

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