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In early twentieth-century New York, a group of like-minded photographers founded the Photo-Secession movement in an effort to legitimize photography as a fine art in the United States. The Photo-Secessionists, with Alfred Stieglitz at the helm, employed a diverse range of formal strategies, techniques, and subjects in order to achieve the movement’s lofty and ambitious goal. Join Assistant Curator of Photography, Jennifer Friess, for a discussion of the efforts of Stieglitz and his peers to carve out a place for photography in the art world.

Lead support for The Aesthetic Movement in America: Artists of the Photo-Secession is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.