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The Mauretania Stieglitz, Alfred (American, 1864-1946)

Title
The Mauretania
Artist
Stieglitz, Alfred (American, 1864-1946)Key Figure
Publication
Camera Work XXXVI
Date
1910
Process
Photogravure
Atelier
Manhattan Photogravure Company, NY
Image Size
20.9 x 16.3 cm

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 334

Hoffman, Katherine. Stieglitz: A Beginning Light. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. no. 223.

Pollack, P. The Picture History of Photography: From the Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1998. p. 267 (titled The "Aquitania" Leaving Harbor).