TY  - JOUR
TI  - 'Beauty is the universal seen': objectivity as trained vision in Alfred Stieglitz's experimental aesthetics
SP  - 250
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2014.941544
EP  - 260
JF  - Visual Studies
AV  - public
ID  - discovery1430960
SN  - 1472-5878
N1  - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Visual Studies on 16 October 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1472586X.2014.941544.
A1  - Ambrosio, C
VL  - 29
Y1  - 2014/10/16/
N2  - A pioneer of avant-garde photography and a former student of the German chemist August Wilhelm Hofmann, Alfred Stieglitz is an instructive example of how artists related to, and challenged, the status of photographic representations at the turn of the twentieth century. I examine Stieglitz?s contributions to photography in the light of his early engagement with experimental science and claim that his scientific training shaped his experimental aesthetics. I frame my discussion around the theoretical considerations that informed ? and still inform ? aesthetic debates around the supposed objective status of photography and argue that Stieglitz?s approach, in its connection with science, offers a fruitful way of thinking about objectivity as trained vision.
IS  - 3
ER  -