Title
An Icy NightArtist
Stieglitz, Alfred (American, 1864-1946)Key FigurePublication
Camera Notes Vol. 5 No. 2Date
1901 plate (1898 negative)Process
PhotogravureAtelier
Photochrome Engraving Company, New YorkImage Size
12.5 x 15.6 cm
Stieglitz printed this celebrated early example of night photography in an ink hedging towards blue/green in color – perhaps influenced by Emerson’s use of a similar color in his 1893 ‘The Moonlit River.‘
Reproduced / Exhibited
Greenough, Sarah, and Alfred Stieglitz. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set : the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 2002. Pl 258
Kruse, Margret. Kunstphotographie Um 1900: D. Sammlung Ernst Juhl; Hamburg: Museum für Kunst u. Gewerbe, 1989 pl. 864
Stieglitz, Alfred, Richard Whelan, and Sarah Greenough. Stieglitz on Photography: His Selected Essays and Notes. New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, 2000. p. 85
Rooseboom, Hans. Électricité: Ten Advertising Photographs by Man Ray. Rijksmuseum: Baker & McKenzie, 2020 no 31
Thornton, Gene. Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen & Their Successors. New York: Ridge Press, 1976 p. 49
MoMA object number 365.1976
