Two Towers — New York

Two Towers — New York

One of Alfred Stieglitz’s signature New York photographs is “Two Towers — New York”, a cityscape taken in 1911 showing his masterful balancing of shades of gray in a complex urban environment. The following description appears in “The Key Set”, volume 1: “The view looks south from a stoop on the west side of Madison Avenue, toward the towers of Madison Square Garden (left) and the Metropolitan Life Building (right).”

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Two Towers — New York
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Image Dimensions20.5 x 16.0 cm

Support Dimensions28.1 x 20.0 cm

Print Notes

Photogravure published in Camera Work XLIV, October, 1913.

Published

Greenough, Sarah, and Alfred Stieglitz. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set : the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 2002. Two Towers—New York, 1911, printed 1913Key Set Number 351