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If this email does not display properly, please click HERE     ‘… much has happened in photography that is sensational, but very little that is comparable with what Stieglitz did. The body of his work, the key set – I think – is the most beautiful photographic document of our time.’ Georgia O’Keeffe 1978 The photographs Alfred Stieglitz [1864–1946] took around his summer house at Lake George, New York state, USA after 1915 are considered a major departure and dramatically influenced the course of photography. The desire to build a specifically ‘American’ art led Stieglitz to explore the essential nature of photography, released from contrivances and from intervention in print and negative. ‘Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession,’ he would write in 1921. This major exhibition is the first in Australia of Stieglitz’s photographs. 150 are included and are amongst the very best Stieglitz ever printed. They are also the rarest. One third of the exhibition is being lent by the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, which holds ‘the key set’ – selected by his lover, muse and wife, the artist Georgia O’Keeffe, and deposited there after Stieglitz’s death. Full media release > (PDF, 3pp, 557 KB) Supported by  On view: 17 June – 5 September 2010  Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney Telephone: (02) 9225 1744 or recorded information (02) 9225 1790 National Toll Free 1800 679 278 Hours: 10am to 5pm, 7 days a week Art After Hours Wednesday nights until 9pm Admission: $10 adult, $8 conc. Media Information and Interviews: Susanne Briggs (02) 9225 1791 or 0412 268 320 or susanneb@ag.nsw.gov.au IMAGE CREDITS: [Georgia O’Keeffe: a portrait] 1918 platinum photograph, 24.6 x 19.7 cm. J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles © J Paul Getty Trust Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney NSW 2000 Telephone (02) 9225 1744 or Toll Free 1800 679 278  Website www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

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