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1891 New York (Fifth Avenue Art Galleries)

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Alfred Stieglitz Lifetime Exhibition: 1891, New York

Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, “Fourth Annual Exhibition of Photographs” (organized by the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, The Boston Camera Club and the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York), 25 May–13 June

Notes

Wins silver medal for Prof. Vogel; catalogue notes negatives were made using a Steinheil Rapid Rectalinear 19, on Vogel-Obernetter plates, and all prints were hot process platinotypes, except nos. 306, 316, and 317

Works Exhibited

301 Weary
302 Before the Wayside Inn
303 Cortina
304 Signs of Spring
305 At the Well
306 Study in Light and Shade (sepiatype)
307 Little Innocence
308 Prof. Vogel
309 Study Head
310 Study at Biarritz (Clouds)
311 At Biarritz
312 Stones of Venice
313 Loading Hay, Ampezzo Valley
314 Returned
315 Light House at Biarritz
316 Gardening (sepiatype)
317 Sunlight Effect (sepiatype)
318 Before the Smithy’s
319 Study in Grey

Select Reviews

“Art in Photographs,” The [New York] Sun (24 May 1891), 16

“Editorial Notes,” Anthony’s Photographic Bulletin 22 (13 June 1891), 323

“The New York Exhibition,” The American Amateur Photographer 3:6 (June 1891), 220–224

“The New York Exhibition,” The Photographic Times and American Photographer 21 (5 June 1891), 270–272

F. C. Beach, “The New York Exhibition,” The American Amateur Photographer 3:6 (June 1891), 220–224; continued in The American Amateur Photographer 3:7 (July 1891), 257–261

Catherine Weed Barnes, “Figure Studies at the New York Exhibition,” The American Amateur Photographer 3:7 (July 1891), 262–264

“The Opinion of the Press on the Fourth Annual Joint Exhibition,” The American Amateur Photographer 3:7 (July 1891), 271–272

“The Joint Exhibition,” The Beacon 3 (July 1891), 230–231