Photographs from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection.
Introduction:
In the winter of 1902 General Luigi Palma de Cesnola, Director of THe Metropolitan Museum of Art, was asked by the Duke of Abruzzi, a drector of Turin's International Expositions od Modern Decorative Arts, to organize an exhibit of important American photographs. General de Cesnola learned that best person to advise him was Alfred Stieglitz, a talented photographer and the most serious collector of photographs in the United States and possibly the world. (...)