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The Flatiron (photograph)

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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
1904 1
Medium
Platinum-gum print (three color variants: brown, blue-green, yellow-green-black) 1
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1
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Genre
Photography 1
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  • lead paragraph, third sentence
    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).
  • lead paragraph, second paragraph, second sentence
    Steichen was able to create these three unique platinum-gum prints.
  • Public collections section, first sentence
    Today, the three platinum-gum prints are part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
  • Genre reference
    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.
  • Created By: Edward Steichen, lead paragraph, first sentence
    The Flatiron is a colored photograph made by Luxembourgish American photographer Edward Steichen.
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