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The Steerage

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Photogravure (from 1907 photograph) by Alfred Stieglitz. Art Institute of Chicago. Shot aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II; depicts immigrants in the steerage section. The diagonal gangplank composition anticipates Cubist spatial ideas.

Scholarly Significance

Stieglitz's masterpiece; marks the turn from Pictorialism to modernist straight photography.