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The City of Ambitions

The City of Ambitions

Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)
Date: 1910, printed 1910–13
Medium: Photogravure
Dimensions: 33.8 x 26.0 cm (13 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number: 49.55.15
Not on view
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This photograph belongs to a series of dynamic images Stieglitz made of New York of 1910. It appeared in the October 1911 issue of Camera Work along with eight other examples of his lyrical urban modernism--a contemporary vision certainly not lost on Coburn, Struss, and Strand.
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto LR: "130D // 128C [crossed out in pencil]", "(Camera Work XXXVI) // The City of Ambition // The Terminal [crossed out in pencil]"

  • Provenance

    Alfred Stieglitz

  • Notes

    This gravure was made from an enlarged copy negative. (Bry number: 130D)

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