How was the photographer founded?

Alfred. Alfred Stieglitz (1864 ~1946) was born in New Jersey, USA. At the age of 6, his family moved to new york. At the age of 18, he was admitted to Berlin University and studied engineering. While studying abroad, he bought a SLR camera that he liked very much in the window. I didn't expect it to be a turning point in his life. Later, he devoted almost all his energy to photography.

(1) Establish a photography break.

1894, Tigri Shi became one of the earliest American members of the chain club. He decided to work in America and encourage photography. Soon, he was elected as the vice chairman of new york Photography Club and served as the editor of the organization's photography newsletter. He spared no effort to introduce the works of many young photographers, including the later famous Edward? Steichen.

1902, Shi Tigri had the opportunity to exhibit his and other picturesque photographers' works in the famous "National Art Club". He named the exhibition "Circuit Breaker of Photography", which meant to break away from the popular photo photography at that time.

The purpose of "Photo Circuit Breaker" is:

Organizing American photographers engaged in photo photography makes people realize that photo photography is not a foil to art, but a unique means of expressing themselves.

At first, only Shi Tigri was the only photographer who broke up, but he soon organized the photographers who participated in this exhibition into basic members. Photographers are a branch of chain clubs. Tigri Shi hopes to organize American art photographers through photographers to promote the development of American native art photography.

At first, the photographer's creative direction was mainly photo photography, influenced by impressionist painting, but soon, Shi Tigri began to oppose making photos through painting and advocated pure photography. He proposed that photography should pay more attention to the laws and characteristics of photography itself when expressing individual personality, so as to make photography more pure and independent of painting.

Tigri's point of view has been supported by many photographers, the famous American photographer Edward? Steichen, Clarence? Clarence White, Ahlander? Wendeng? Some photographers from coburn and Europe later devoted themselves to the work of Shi Tigri, whose influence gradually expanded and became the mainstream of world art photography in the early 20th century. Therefore, Shi Tigri is regarded as "the pioneer of modern art photography".

(2) Photographic Works and Exhibition Hall 29 1

The king of photographic destruction has had such a great influence in the field of artistic photography in the world that we have to mention the photographic works edited by Shi Tigri and his "29 1 exhibition hall".

1903, tigri schtz paid to edit the quarterly magazine "photographic works" of "the king of photographic destruction", and published contemporary photographic works, review articles, film festival reviews and articles about art and photography trends from all over the world. At the same time, he printed those intaglio photo illustrations on the best paper. These efforts made Photographic Works become the best art magazine recognized by the United States in the first 50 years of the 20th century.

Two years later, in order to exhibit and sell photos and other works of art, Shi Tigri opened a small exhibition hall at No.29L, 5th Street, new york, which was later called "29 1 exhibition hall". He held a personalized exhibition of members' works in the exhibition hall. In addition, he also lost no time in introducing the emerging avant-garde works of art at that time.

Shi Tigri's magazines and exhibition halls published and exhibited the works of many European and American photographers. At the same time, he explained and introduced these photographers and their works as a critic, photographer and art seller. Under his influence, many newcomers stand out. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Stie Gerriets, the center of the world photo illustrated has been transferred from Europe to the United States.

(3) tireless explorer

Shi Tigri not only made outstanding contributions to the development of The Photographer, but also achieved fruitful results in his own creative activities.

1887, 23-year-old Tigri Shi won the prize in the British Photography Competition with Emerson as the judge for his work "Funny Jokes". This photo takes a naturalistic approach and shoots a street hooligan. Shi Tigri won numerous awards in his life, which was the first of the 150 medals he won in his life.

Shi Tigri was also the first photographer to take artistic photos with a hand-held camera in the history of photography. The terminal was shot with a 4×5 inch camera. This photo was taken at 1893, showing the street view of new york. The horses on the picture are steaming, which is in sharp contrast with the winter scene and leaves a deep impression on people. It took SchTigri two days to finish the work. In order to photograph the railway carriage, he waited for three hours in the heavy snow, but it was not filmed because of the poor light. Finally, the carriage was successfully photographed the next day when it was ready to leave in front of the old post office in new york.

1904, Shi Tigri cooperated with edward steichen, Frank? Eugene held a joint exhibition in Hall 29 1, which was the first color photography exhibition in the history of photography.

1922, the first photo with the theme of cloud was published by Tigri schtz. Eight years later, he combined the photos of these clouds into a general title, Continuous Photography of Ten Clouds, and put forward a new concept of "equivalence", which laid an aesthetic foundation for "subjectivist photography" in the 1950s.

1993 was called "Tigray Year" by experts in the photographic auction market. In June 5438+10, a photo "Hands and thimbles" made by Shi Tigri by palladium salt printing method was bought by collectors at a sky-high price of $398,500, which broke the highest auction price of a single photo at that time.