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The Exhibition Is Organized: Just after the founding of the society, Stieglitz was personally invited by the National Arts Club to organize an exhibition of American pictorial photography in their New York building. "I enlisted the aid of the then newly organized and limited 'Photo-Secession,' " he wrote in Photograms of the Year 1902, "and it was determined to hold the forthcoming exhibition under the auspices of that group."Conceived as a visual primer for decoding the urban environment, the exhibition is organized as a walking tour of the cityscape, and anchored by a series of large architectural elements — including a copper dormer from the Carnegie Mansion on Millionaires' Row in Manhattan (1902); a sheet-metal section of Salt Lake City's legendary Z.C.M.I. department store (1901); and an Art Deco terra cotta window surround from the lost S.H. Kress & Co. five-and-dime in Phoenix (1933). The exhibition also draws from a number of the Museum's most significant collections, including the Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection (one of the largest collections
This exhibition draws on his archive of 40,000 negatives in the RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection. The exhibition will take place between 10 March - 22 April 2006. |
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