The Flatiron is a colored photograph made by the Luxembourgish-American photographer Edward Steichen, depicting the recently erected Flatiron Building in New York and taking inspiration from fellow photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who had photographed the building a year earlier. The original negative was made in 1904 and produced three platinum-gum exhibition prints in brown (1905), blue-green (1909) and yellow-green-black.
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Year Created MediumPlatinum-gum print (three color variants: brown, blue-green, yellow-green-black) 1 LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1 Medium
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Source The Flatiron (photograph) (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
The photograph depicts the recently erected Flatiron Building in New York, taking inspiration from fellow photographers like Alfred Stieglitz, who had just photographed the building a year prior.
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The original negative was made in 1904 and spawned three platinum-gum exhibition prints in brown (1905), blue-green (1909), and yellow-green-black (1904-1909; uncertain).
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Steichen was able to create these three unique platinum-gum prints.
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Today, the three platinum-gum prints are part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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The Flatiron is a colored photograph made by Luxembourgish American photographer Edward Steichen. The photograph depicts the recently erected Flatiron Building in New York, taking inspiration from fellow photographers like Alfred Stieglitz, who had just photographed the building a year prior.
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The Flatiron is a colored photograph made by Luxembourgish American photographer Edward Steichen.
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The Flatiron is a colored photograph made by Luxembourgish American photographer Edward Steichen. The photograph depicts the recently erected Flatiron Building in New York, taking inspiration from fellow photographers like Alfred
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