Alfred Stieglitz, Spring Showers -- The Street-Cleaner, from Camera Work Number 36, 1900-01; printed

Alfred Stieglitz

1864-1946

Spring Showers -- The Street-Cleaner, from Camera Work Number 36. 1900-01; printed 1911.

Photogravure on Japan tissue.

The image 9 x 3 5/8 in. (22.9 x 9.2 cm.), the sheet 11 1/8 x 8 in. (28.3 x 20.3 cm.), the original page mount slightly larger

Additional Details

Notes:

Taken on Madison Avenue near 23rd Street, the image reflects Stieglitz's interest in the tonal effects produced by making photographs in rain or snow. It is alternatively titled Street Sweeper--Little Tree.

Rather than depicting a bustling, hectic urban environment, Stieglitz's composition of the small figure of the worker juxtaposed with the fenced tree seems to convey something of a fragile balance between people, nature, and the rapidly changing urban setting.

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