The Flatiron

Photography and Media

1903, printed 1920/39

Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946

In an article in 1946, Stieglitz recalled photographing the newly erected Flatiron Building on the day of a great snowstorm. “I suddenly saw the Flat-Iron Building as I had never seen it before. It looked, from where I stood, as if it were moving toward me like the bow of a monster ocean steamer, a picture of the new America which was in the making.”

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Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Alfred Stieglitz
Title: The Flatiron
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1903
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on second mount, upper left, in graphite: "1 [in rectangle]"; verso, on second mount, lower left, diagonally, in graphite: "9 [encircled]"; verso, on second mount, lower left, in graphite: "130 A"
Dimensions: 12 × 8.4 cm (image/paper/first mount); 32 × 24.8 cm (second mount)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.707
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Travis, David. 1979. “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930.” Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 50, fig. 155.

New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930,” September 19-November 25, 1979; travel to Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century,” October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016. (Elizabeth Siegel)

The Alfred Stieglitz Collection

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