Alfred Stieglitz

I think Alfred Stieglitz was an important asset to the development of photography as an art form. Before him, people viewed photography as something completely different than art. A lot of people during that time period said that photography was art for the lazy person, that it was not real art since the camera did all the work for you. Below is an example of his artwork. I think Stieglitz did succeed in fighting for photography to be considered art, since nowadays people do look at it as more of an art form. There are still those people who say that anyone can be a photographer and that it is not real art, but i feel like the majority of people look at photographs as art.