Alfread Stieglitz
Alfread Stieglitz was born on January 1, 1864. Hoboken, New Jersey and raised in a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side and past away on July 13, 1946 of the age of 82 from a heart disease. Stieglitz was born the eldest of six children. In 1882, Stieglitz began studying mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin and soon switched to photography. He traveled through the European countryside with his camra and soon later won a big prize and had alot of attention in Europe in the 1880's.
In 1893, he married Emmeline Obermeyer and 5 years later in 1898 they had a child, kitty. But between 1893-1896 he was an editor of American Amateur Photographer magazine but soon after had to be resign cause of his work. Stieglitz turned to the New York Camera Club and which later renamed to The Camera Club of New York. It still stands to this day.
Stieglitz divorced his wife Emmeline in 1918, soon after she threw him out of their house when she came home and found him photographing Georgia O'Keeffe and soon later moved in and married in 1924. Stieglitz wife soon later had to take care of him couse of his health.
In the 1930s, he took some nude of Dorothy Norman. In 1937, Stieglitz ended his camera work of heart disease. The last ten years before he passed, he summered at Lake George, New York and worked in a shed he had converted into a darkroom and wintered with O'Keeffe in Manhattan's Shelton, the first skyscraper hotel in that city.
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