Photo-Secession
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De Meyer’s beginnings in photography coincided with those of the various Photo-Secession movements in New York, London and Vienna, which all fought hard for photography’s place in the realm of fine art.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2010
In 1905 he helped Stieglitz start the Photo-Secession Galleries in New York, a rallying point for those who wanted to "secede from the notion that photography is only literal representation."
From Time Magazine Archive
With his friend Edward Steichen, he founded what they called the Photo-Secession, a small group of progressive American photographers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says Stieglitz: "It was in those Photo-Secession rooms that the ice was broken for modern art in America."
From Time Magazine Archive
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