120 years ago today, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue in NYC. This small gallery helped bring art photography to the same stature in America as painting and sculpture, exhibiting famous early photographers like Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Gertrude Käsebier, and Clarence H. White. But, it also being an avantgarde gallery space, 291 also hosted the first solo US exhibitions of painters and sculptors like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cezanne. READ more about this little known American art landmark… (1905)

Alfred Stieglitz believed that photography could share space with fine art, and certainly the photo camera at the time produced images that didn’t have so much more resolution than what co

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