Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz was an accomplished photographer in his own right, but his major contribution to photography was as a promoter. It is fair to say that he had more to do with photography being accepted as a legitimate art form than any other person. He also played a prominent part in determining the direction of photography, from the founding of the photo-secessionist pictorialist group, to modernism, through his promotion of the work of Strand and Weston, among others. The foundation of aesthetic minimalism in photography can be traced directly back to this shift from the painterly approach of the pictorialists to the much harder reductionism of the modernists.
In terms of composition, many photographs taken today are similar ...
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