The Steerage , Alfred Stieglitz, 1907, photogravure, photography Alfred Stieglitz  (1864-1946) was an American photographer who was determined to show that photography was an art medium. In the beginning, Stieglitz was the editor of  Camera Notes , a journal of the Camera Club of New York. However, when the club started to become more restrictive, he and some others decided to leave and form the Photo-Succession , which aimed to place photography in the fine arts category, in 1902. ...

Horn Players , 1983, acrylic and oilstick on three canvas panels mounted on wood supports Jean-Michel Basquiat  was a classic Neo-Expressionist painter and New York native, a place in which he took great inspiration from. Born in 1960, Basquiat spent his childhood going to museums and studying fine art. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he was introduced to the graffiti culture around him. Basquiat started by putting graffiti around lower Manhattan under the name of “SAMO”. Then, he moved on...

The Alhambra , Granada, Spain, Nasrid Dynasty, 1354-1391, white-washed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gliding The Alhambra  in Granada, Spain was a fortress complex made in the Nasrid Dynasty of Islamic Spain and it was created sometime during 1354 to 1391 with white washed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gliding. It was a palace made for the caliphate, the leaders of an Islamic government, but also acted as a military fortress. Because of this, it had characteristics of both...