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rev_number: 30
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creators_name: Ambrosio, C
title: 'Beauty is the universal seen': objectivity as trained vision in Alfred Stieglitz's experimental aesthetics
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C06
divisions: F58
note: 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.
abstract: 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.
date: 2014-10-16
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2014.941544
vfaculties: VMPS
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Journal Article
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elements_source: Scopus
elements_id: 948812
doi: 10.1080/1472586X.2014.941544
lyricists_name: Ambrosio, Chiara
lyricists_id: CAMBR79
full_text_status: public
publication: Visual Studies
volume: 29
number: 3
pagerange: 250-260
issn: 1472-5878
citation:        Ambrosio, C;      (2014)    'Beauty is the universal seen': objectivity as trained vision in Alfred Stieglitz's experimental aesthetics.                   Visual Studies , 29  (3)   pp. 250-260.    10.1080/1472586X.2014.941544 <https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2014.941544>.       Green open access   
 
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