America and Alfred Stieglitz First Edition 1934 Doubleday Dust Jacket

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Published just months before Alfred Stieglitz’s sixtieth birthday, America and Alfred Stieglitz stands as one of the earliest major assessments of the photographer whose influence permanently altered the course of American art. More than a biography, the volume gathers essays by many of the writers, artists, critics, and intellectuals who knew Stieglitz personally or were shaped by the remarkable circle that formed around his galleries, “291” and An American Place. Contributors include William Carlos Williams, Lewis Mumford, Paul Rosenfeld, Waldo Frank, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Sherwood Anderson, Paul Strand, John Marin, Dorothy Norman, Marsden Hartley, Arthur G. Dove, and many others. Illustrated throughout with 120 reproductions, the book remains an essential document of American Modernism.

Beyond its significance as a tribute to Stieglitz himself, the book offers an extraordinary window into the artists who defined early twentieth-century American culture. Reproductions include works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Pablo Picasso, Max Weber, Charles Demuth, and Stieglitz’s own groundbreaking photographs. Seldom found in its original dust jacket, this handsome first edition belongs in any serious collection of photography, American Modernism, or twentieth-century art history.

A cornerstone of American photography and Modernist scholarship, preserved in its original dust jacket.