| Alfred Stieglitz |  |
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an American-born photographer, artist and art impresario at a time when American culture was redefining ways of seeing, thinking and experiencing the world. Over his fifty-year career he was instrumental in making photography an acceptable art form. In 1902 he organized the Photo-Secession group, to help the art world recognize photography "as a distinctive medium of individual expression." Among its members were Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Clarence White and Alvin Langdon Coburn.
