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From my Window at the Shelton, West

1932

Alfred Stieglitz

(American, 1864–1946)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 23.9 x 18.5 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Cary Ross, Knoxville, Tennessee 1935.56
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

While the Depression led to the cancellation of many ambitious construction plans, some high-rise building projects continued in the 1930s, including the one Stieglitz saw from his midtown New York apartment in the Shelton Hotel. Built in 1923, the Shelton was one of the first “skyscraper” residential hotels, and briefly the tallest hotel in the world. A photographer and gallerist, Stieglitz was a leading proponent for the recognition of photography as a fine art equal to painting and sculpture.
Vertically oriented, black-and-white photograph depicting a view over a city with a skyscraper extending up beyond the photograph on the right half, and the metal shell of a skyscraper being built further away, centered in the left half. Shorter buildings and two church spires cluster below. One side of the building on the right and most of the lower half of the photograph are cast entirely in shadow.

From my Window at the Shelton, West

1932

Alfred Stieglitz

(American, 1864–1946)
America

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