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these watch the passing figures and await the moment in which everything is in balance; that is, satisfies your eye. This often means hours of patient waiting. My picture, ‘Fifth Avenue, Winter,’ is the result of a three hours’ stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd, 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired picture."
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The picture depicts a carriage driving through a snowy urban landscape. The effect of the snow blurring gives the picture an impressionistic atmosphere. The picture was later wrongly dated by the author as having been taken on 22 February 1892, but it only could have been made the following year, on
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Stieglitz later wrote that this photograph was the result of a three-hour wait in a rather inclement snow storm: “In order to obtain pictures by means of the hand camera it is well to choose your subject, regardless of figures, and carefully study the lines and lighting. After having determined upon
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in 1893. The photograph was made at the corner of the Fifth Avenue and the 35th Street in
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22 February 1893, judging by the weather descriptions of both days.
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Alfred Stieglitz
New York
Europe
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Museum of Modern Art
New York
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Stieglitz : a memoir/biography
ISBN
0-374-26990-4
OCLC
8865873
Alfred Stieglitz at Art Story
Winter, Fifth Avenue at National Gallery of Art
Winter, Fifth Avenue at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Winter, Fifth Avenue at Museum of Modern Art
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Alfred Stieglitz
The Last Joke, Bellagio
Winter, Fifth Avenue
The Terminal
Spring Showers, the Coach
The Hand of Man
The Steerage

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