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New York Auction 9 October 2024

  • Taken in 1893, The Terminal is one of Alfred Stieglitz’s most renowned photographs of New York City. It was one of a series of views Stieglitz made in Manhattan in snow, rain, and evening light shortly after his return in 1890 from nearly a decade in Europe. The city was much changed since his departure, and his re-acclimation was difficult, and he sought to make sense of the newly urbanized space by photographing it. On a winter day, at the end of the Third Avenue streetcar line near City Hall, Stieglitz came upon a driver tending to his team of horses. He was moved by the care exhibited by the driver, writing later that ‘America was saved for me. I was no longer alone.’

     

    The Terminal was exhibited widely, at the Royal Photographic Society in London in 1894, the International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography in Buffalo in 1910, and many other venues. Stieglitz included it as a photogravure in the 1911 issue of Camera Work devoted exclusively to his work and published it as the large-format photogravure offered here.

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    • Provenance

      Doris Bry, New York, 1993
      Joy of Giving Something Foundation Collection, New York

    • Literature

      Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Volume One, cat. no. 94
      Camera Work, Number 36, October 1911, p. 61
      Bry, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer, pl. 2
      Daniel, Stieglitz Steichen Strand, pls. 4-5
      Green, Camera Work: A Critical Anthology, p. 312
      Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo Secession, p. 18
      Homer, Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde, pl. 4
      Margolis, Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work: A Pictorial Guide, pl. XV
      Yochelson, Alfred Stieglitz: New York, pl. 1
      Newhall, The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day, p. 102
      Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, pl. IV
      Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections, p. 197
      Taschen, Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work: The Complete Illustrations 1903-1917, p. 596
      Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz: Photography, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the Rise of the Avant-Garde in America, n.p.
      Museum of Modern Art, The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel, p. 123

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Alfred Stieglitz

The Terminal

1893
Large-format photogravure, printed no later than 1913, mounted.
13 1/8 x 10 in. (33.3 x 25.4 cm)

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New York Auction 9 October 2024