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
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 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: Image/paper/first mount: 12 × 8.4 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/16 in.); Second mount: 32 × 24.8 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.707
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/66315/manifest.json

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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