When, in 1907, Alfred Stieglitz took a simple picture of passengers
on a ship bound for Europe, he could not have known that "The
Steerage", as it was soon called, would become a modernist icon
and, from today's vantage, arguably the most famous photograph made
by an American photographer. In complementary essays, a photo
historian and a photographer reassess this important picture,
rediscovering the complex social and aesthetic ideas that informed
it and explaining how over the years it has achieved its status as
a masterpiece. What aspects of Stieglitz's ideas and
sometimes-murky ambitions help us understand the picture's
achievements? How should we assess the photograph in relation to
Stieglitz's many writings about it? The authors of this book
explore what "The Steerage" might mean in at least two senses - by
itself, as a grand and self-sufficient work, and also ineluctably
bound up with the many stories told about it. They make the
photograph, today, what Stieglitz himself made it over the years -
a photo-text work.
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