New site--Alfred Stieglitz

The Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago is
delighted to announce a new website focused on the museum's Alfred
Stieglitz photography collection

    <URL:http://media.artic.edu/stieglitz>

This new interactive collection focus brings to the public
high-quality reproductions of all 244 photographs in the Stieglitz
Collection: 159 by Stieglitz himself, and others by Ansel Adams,
Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, and many others in his circle.  It
contains in-depth information assembled by conservators, curators,
and other researchers.

Among its features are:

    New conservation analysis on each work, with 44 receiving
    in-depth examination

    Over 900 images, including new object photography, contextual
    images, and photomicrographs

    A scholarly essay about the collection's history and entry into
    the Art Institute

    Essays on the twenty-one artists featured in its holdings

    Historical entries on the three galleries Stieglitz ran, and the
    two journals he edited

    Explanations of twelve separate photographic processes

    Context for nine different series within Stieglitz's own
    photography

    Seven thematic essays linking the works

    High-quality image downloads, and a downloadable PDF with
    information on each object

You can sort, filter, download, explore, and share.  Please take a
minute to play with it, and pass it along to your friends and
colleagues:


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