Early 20th Century Modernism: Pictorialism and Straight Photography

OER Texts on this topic:

• Paul Strand

• The Critical Deployment of Amateurism in the 1910s New York

• 291—Little Galleries of the Photo Secession

Photographic Archives on this topic:

• Northwestern University, Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian

• Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection

• The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Camera Work Collection (*not open access*)

Open Access Images freely available to use on this topic:

Gertrude Käseiber, Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz, 1902, Glass plate negative, LC-K21- 56 [P&P], Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Edward S. Curtis, Crossing the Lake - Kutenai, Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1900 to 1910 Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries. "Crossing the Lake - Kutenai", Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian

Edward S. Curtis, Shaman's Rattle - Haida, Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son in 1915, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries, Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian

Carl Van Vechten, [Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe, New York], 1936 June 5, gelatin silver print, LOT 12735, no. 893 [P&P], Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1911, photomechanical print: photogravure, Illus. in TR1.C5 1911 (Case X) [P&P], Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Alfred Stieglitz, A snapshot: Paris, 1911, photomechanical print : photogravure, Illus. in TR1.C5 1913 (Case X) [P&P],  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print