Stieglitz was struggling to make his own works "reflect and embody his new and lately won understanding of photography as a modern art," writes Sarah Greenough, the photography curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
"But there was always this understanding that photography was a constant.
People's usage and understanding of photography has changed, and their self-awareness has grown too.
This understanding of photography's supposed objectivity has dominated evaluations of its role in the arts.
His work and fundamental understanding of photography as an art form served as inspiration to generations of photographers that followed.
He has a fine understanding of photography, of philosophy, of the modern and classical canon of English fiction.
"Photography's Other Histories," an anthology of 12 essays edited by the anthropologists Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson, is an instructive contribution to this continuing effort to revise our understanding of photography.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Japanese form Sugimoto Hiroshi, (born 1948, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese photographer whose realistic images of intangible or impossible phenomena challenged the understanding of photography as an "objective" art form.
1948 Tokyo, Japan Hiroshi Sugimoto, Japanese form Sugimoto Hiroshi (born 1948, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese photographer whose realistic images of intangible or impossible phenomena challenged the understanding of photography as an "objective" art form.
Camera clubs, societies and publications had flourished to that point in time, developing and deepening the understanding of photography as a means to new art and documentary forms," says Gerald Preiss, the manager of preservation digitisation at AIATSIS.
