From My Window at An American Place, Southwest
Alfred Stieglitz American
Not on view
Stieglitz was captivated by the naturally abstract forms of the skyscrapers that populated the modern city, especially when the elevated view omitted the base of the buildings such that their shapes seem to float in space. Here Stieglitz tempered the cool geometry characteristic of such a view by including within the frame the weathered wall of a building whose weblike pattern of cracks reminds us that the natural process of aging applies to all aspects of society.
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