Dying Poplars and Live Branch - Lake George
Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946
1932
A gelatin silver print photograph in which Alfred Stieglitz isolates a stand of poplars to meditate on the fragile boundary between life and decay.
Tightly cropped and vertical, the image fills the frame with a lace-like tangle of pale trunks and fine twigs against a muted sky, compelling you to trace repeated rhythms of line and texture upward.
Created late in Stieglitz’s career, this Lake George view turns a natural subject into near-abstraction and helped demonstrate photography’s power to convey modernist formal ideas and personal feeling.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
9 5/16 × 7 3/8" (23.7 × 18.8 cm)
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Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
Accession
66.1950
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