Alfred Stieglitz
1902
Photographic Journal of a Baby

Photogravure
6.5 x 9.6 ins
 
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Publication: The Photographic Times 1902 Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz, The Key Set, Volume One, 1886-1922, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2002, pg 109 La Photographie D'Art vers 1900, Credit Communal, Brussels, 1983, pg 247
 
Other Collections: Provincial Museum voor Fotografie, Anvers
 
Notes: Katherine “Kitty” Stieglitz was the only child of Alfred Stieglitz. Born September 27, 1898, she soon became the subject of an early series of photographs making up a larger photographic record he called his Photographic Journal of a Baby. This hand-pulled photogravure of Kitty, originally taken in 1900, was used as the frontis gravure for the January, 1902 issue of The Photographic Times. The photograph depicts Kitty in her pram (Stieglitz's first wife Emmeline is seen at left steadying it) leaning over to investigate a baby chicken feeding outside its' hutch. This is one of a series of photographs of Kitty to appear in this issue. There are an additional 18 images of her reproduced as halftones: three full-page plates showing a combined 17 images and one other additional full-page image.
 
Photographer stamp Alfred Stieglitz bottom left of image. Photochrome bottom right of image. From the "Photographic Journal of a Baby" bottom center
 
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