The Terminus

Alfred Stieglitz American

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Best known as The Terminal, Stieglitz's iconic image of a streetcar driver watering his team of horses was originally exhibited as The Terminus. In addition to presenting the image in more traditional media (carbon prints, gelatin silver prints, and photogravures), Stieglitz also projected the image from a lantern slide, or positive transparency, at the Royal Photographic Society in London in 1897. The projected image, enlarged and luminous, was the perfect vehicle for Stieglitz's winter scene of steaming horses in icy snow.

The Terminus, Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York), Gelatin dry-plate lantern slide

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The Terminus, Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York), Gelatin dry-plate lantern slide
The Terminus, Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York), Gelatin dry-plate lantern slide

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