father of modern photography

Today photography get massive development and there are lot of  technology to use.But do you know who is put the first step to the  modern photography.We call him to father of modern photography.He is non other than Alfred Stieglitz.

                  Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter in his whole 82 life period.Alfred Stieglitz was born in January 1, 1864 at Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.photography is some Art, science with including lot of other elements like lighting,landscaping etc.But in this period is the beginning of all technology and lot of scientists do their experiment to make new invention.

In 1871 Stieglitz was sent to the Charlier Institute,This institute is one of best privet school in New York.Stieglitzes had five children call  Flora, twins Julius and Leopold, Agnes and Selma After he finishing his study in Charlier Institute Stieglitz began studying mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin.Because his father Edward Stieglitz sold their company an move to Europe in 1881.

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By chance he enrolled in a chemistry class taught by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, who was an important scientist and researcher in the then developing field of photography.At the same time he met German artists Adolf von Menzel and Wilhelm Hasemann.both of whom introduced him to the idea of making art directly from nature. He bought his first camera and traveled through the European countryside, taking many photographs of landscapes and peasants in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

In 1884 his parents return to America but he stay at Germany for his rest of the decade.In this time Stieglitz began to collect the first books of what would become a very huge library on photography and photographers in Europe and the America. He read extensively as he collected, and through his library he formulated his initial thinking about photography and aesthetics

1887 he wrote his very first article, to the new magazine The Amateur Photographer. with header "A Word or Two about Amateur Photography in Germany",After that he keep continue writing to the magazine in Germany and England.

That same year he submitted several photographs to the annual holiday competition held by the British magazine Amateur Photographer. His photograph The Last Joke, Bellagio won first place – Stieglitz's first photographic recognition. The next year he won both first and second prizes in the same competition, and his reputation began to spread as several German and British photographic magazines began publishing his work.


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