Coming Through the Door
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933
Catalogue
- Year
- 1898
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 13.1cm (7 15/16 x 5 3/16in.) Mount: 21.4 x 31.9 cm (8 7/16 x 12 9/16 in.) Mount (2nd): 37.1 x 31.9 cm (14 5/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Clarence H. White
Artist
Photography
Clarence H. White was an American photographer and educator who pioneered pictorialist photography in the early 20th century, using soft focus, tonal gradation, and carefully composed domestic and landscape scenes to elevate the medium toward fine art. His work emphasized mood and poetic effect over documentary precision, influencing a generation of photographers through his teaching and his founding of the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York. White's commitment to photography as a fine art form rather than a mechanical process established foundational practices in photographic education and aesthetics that extended well beyond his death in 1925.
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Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- Clarence H. White
- Year
- 1898
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 13.1cm (7 15/16 x 5 3/16in.) Mount: 21.4 x 31.9 cm (8 7/16 x 12 9/16 in.) Mount (2nd): 37.1 x 31.9 cm (14 5/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1898-011000
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified