The Hand of Man
negative 1902; print about 1933
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 8.3 × 11.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-623829
A locomotive engine steams toward the camera on its barely visible tracks, wearing a billowing black cloud of smoke like a plumed hat. The criss-crossing lines of tracks beside it snake off toward the horizon, and the telephone poles at left appear to be making the same march. Alfred Stieglitz's composition is a treatise on the importance of the machine in the modern Industrial Age. The title of the photograph, *The Hand of Man*, sets up a comparison between the machine that is depicted and the human artistic impulse that created the image.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- negative 1902; print about 1933 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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