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Unlike the unwieldy 8 x 10 view camera (which required a tripod), this camera gave Stieglitz greater freedom and mobility to roam the city and respond quickly to the ever-changing street life around him.
Title: The Terminal. Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York) Date: 1893, printed 1920s–30s. Medium: Gelatin silver print. Dimensions: 8.9 x 11.5 cm (3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949. Accession Number: 49.55.6
The Terminal predicts by over a decade the radical transformation of the medium from painterly prints of rarified subjects to what the critic Sadakichi Hartmann dubbed "straight photography."
At the time, Stieglitz had just returned from Germany and found America culturally barren in comparison. According to one anecdote, when he saw the horses being nourished by their driver, he...
La terminal de tranvías de caballos. © Alfred Stieglitz, La terminal de tranvía de caballos, Nueva York, 1893. 1,206 views.
Recently returned from nearly a decade in Europe, Stieglitz found not only his subject matter on the streets of New York but also an emotional relationship with the city's anonymity and...
La Terminal predice, durante más de una década, la transformación radical del medio, desde impresiones pictóricas de sujetos enrarecidos hasta lo que el crítico Sadakichi Hartmann denominó «fotografía directa».
