The Flatiron
Alfred Stieglitz
1903
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper/first mount: 12 × 8.4 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/16 in.); Second mount: 32 × 24.8 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
photographic techniquesPictorialismphotographycityscapesphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paper
About
In an article in 1946, Stieglitz recalled photographing the newly erected Flatiron Building on the day of a great snowstorm. “I suddenly saw the Flat-Iron Building as I had never seen it before. It looked, from where I stood, as if it were moving toward me like the bow of a monster ocean steamer, a picture of the new America which was in the making.” For more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection.
