Photo-Secession

The Photo-Secession was an American Club, which began as a means of artistic expression for photography. It was founded in 1902 in New York City by Edward Steichen, Frank Eugene and Alfred Stieglitz, the center and thought leaders remained. Almost all the members had previously been members of the Camera Club of New York and followers of pictorialism. Member could only be by prior invitation.

The name alludes to the European avant-garde movements, bringing the artistic demands of the participating photographers should be underlined. The model was, among other things, the British photographer - artist - club Linked Ring, who pursued the same objective.

The association was 1903-1917 a magazine, Camera Work, Stieglitz as publisher and editor. Between 1902 to 1909 also appeared as a federation own newsletter The Photo - Secession, also Alfred Stieglitz acted as editor for the. In his own gallery 291 ( after its address: 291 Fifth Avenue ) in New York City organized exhibitions from 1905, first with photographs of members, later, increasingly, contemporary painting, to show the position of photography among the arts. So found in the 291 first solo exhibitions were held on American soil by Rodin, Matisse ( 1908), Henri Rousseau ( 1910), Cézanne, Picasso ( 1911), Picabia (1913) and Brancusi (1914 ). Stieglitz ran the gallery until 1917, when the building was demolished.

The Stieglitz's Photo-Secession for the World Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Turin in 1902, where for the " International Exhibition of Art Photography ", submitted photographs were the only of King Victor Emmanuel III. even lent Grand Prix and made the American tendencies to a wider European audience known.

Organised by the Photo-Secession International Photography Exhibition 1910 in the Albright Art Gallery (later: Albright - Knox Art Gallery ) in Buffalo, New York with over 500 photographs made ​​at the time for strong sensation and spread of the new idea of photography as an art form.

After the photography was established as an art form and thus achieved its goal, many members turned by the Association from ( since about 1910) until it dissolved informally.

Members (selection)

291 (art gallery) Auguste Rodin Pablo Picasso Francis Picabia Victor Emmanuel III of Italy William Innes Homer
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