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Analysis of Artworks



Analysis of Artworks

Alfred Stieglitz

City of Ambition

In the city of Ambition, recently built skyscrapers in New York to rise above the harbor, as the upper sails of clipper ships, with which they were compared. For Alfred Stieglitz, skyscrapers were symbols of both the physical grandeur of the city and what he disparagingly as inordinate ambition of men responsible for their creation. However, while others have focused their cameras down into the dark abyss of the streets of New York, he has consistently focused upward toward the sky as a reminder of the transcendence of art over the ...