A Beginning Light: The Early Work of Alfred Stieglitz

Rating:
Summary: A Great Book
Review: If you are a Stieglitz follower and if you think that you have read all that there is to read about him, you are wrong..
Katherine Hoffman has come to the 'Stieglitz-Biography' late, and yet has produced a newly discovered Alfred Stieglitz. I was hesitant to purchase another 'A.S. Biography', but once I entered her work, I was smitten.
The history of a great artist needs a passionate eye and a fresh start and her view of his European journies and the intimacies of his relationship with his family and 'Artists' were given a renewed spirit and a kind passion in Katherine's voice.
She has given us new experiences in the selection of her 'images' and expanded Stieglitz's body of work for me.
As 'passionate' as Stieglitz was to the critical aspects of his work ,so too is the 'biographers' passion and admiration for the Artist, his Ambitions, the Art of his Photographs and his Philosophy - found page after page in her book.
I am happy that I took the step inside yet another Alfred Stieglitz Biography and yet saddened that this edition had to end so soon...
I look forward to a follow up on "A Beginning Light" with 'the adjoining years..'
I am certain that Ms. Katherine Hoffman has more to say.
Harve Sherman - collector