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AVI 1O-Photography Unit /21

Photography as Art: Alfred Stieglitz Questions

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1. Alfred Stieglitz was the first American art photographer, what

did he refer to all visual artists as?

2. Look at Alfred Stieglitz’s self portrait from 1907, what kind of mood/feeling do you get

from it and why?

3. Look at Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage photograph from 1907, what is the subject

matter of the photograph?

4. How has Alfred Stieglitz divided the composition in his The Steerage photograph

from 1907?

5. Do you think Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage photograph from 1907 was staged or he

was at the right place and noticed this interesting composition?

6. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage

photograph from 1907 and why?

7. Look at Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Icy Night from 1893, what element and/or principle does

the photograph emphasize?

8. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Icy Night and why?

9. Look at Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Spring Showers, New York from 1902, what element

and/or principle does the photograph emphasize?

10. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Spring Showers and

why?

11. Look at Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Flatiron Building from 1903, what element and/or

principle does the photograph emphasize?

12. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Flatiron Building and

why?

13. Look at Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Flatiron Building from 1903, what element and/or

principle does the photograph emphasize?

14. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Flatiron Building and

why?

15. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Untitled from 1918

and why?

16. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Georgia O’ Keeffe

from 1917 and why?

17. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Hands and Thimble -

Georgia O’ Keeffe from 1920 and why?

18. Look at Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Apples and Gable, Lake George from 1922, what

element and/or principle does the photograph emphasize?

19. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Apples and Gable,

Lake George from 1922?

20. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Dancing Trees?

21. What kind of mood/feeling do you get from Alfred’s Stieglitz’s Equivalent from

1933?

22. Select one of Alfred’s Stieglitz’s photographs that we examined and explain using 6

elements and principles why you find it appealing. (Line, Shape, Form, Texture,

Balance,Rhythm,Pattern, Contrast, Emphasis, Value, Space, Movement, Colour,

Variety, Proportion, Unity) in your written explanation.