Alfred Stieglitz Exhibit at Seaport Museum

This article was originally published on my Typepad blog on October 16, 2010

I went to the Seaport Museum for the first time last week. The museum is showing an interesting exhibit of Stieglitz' photos of NYC spanning a number of years of his residency here. They range from his pictorial work from the late nineteenth century to his views from the Shelton of the construction of the RCA building. One thing that should be noted, though, is that most of these photos are not original prints but extremely high quality photogravure reproductions (taken, I assume, from issues of Camera Work). There is also a smaller exhibit of photos of NYC taken by other photographers associated with the Photo Secession as well as a number of out of print photo books of NYC shown under glass.