Alfred Stieglitz made Winter, Fifth Avenue in 1893 during a blizzard that effectively emptied the streets of New York — standing in the snow for three hours waiting for the right moment, a patience that was rewarded with one of the defining images of nineteenth-century photography. The photograph shows a horse-drawn carriage emerging from a veil of falling snow on a deserted Fifth Avenue, the city behind it dissolved into grey. It was the image that established Stieglitz's reputation and helped make the argument — then far from settled — that photography could be a fine art.
Stieglitz (1864–1946) would go on to become the most significant figure in American art photography of the early twentieth century, founding the Photo-Secession movement, editing the journal Camera Notes and later Camera Work, and running the gallery 291, where he showed Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, and Rodin to American audiences for the first time. Winter, Fifth Avenue precedes all of this, but contains its essential argument: that a photograph, made with sufficient attention and intention, can be a work of art.
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