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A work made of gelatin silver print.

My Father

Alfred Stieglitz · 1894, printed 1920/39

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Palette

Graphite
 80% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Iron
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Warm grey
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1
Pale stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Chalk
 3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946
Date
1894, printed 1920/39
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Size
Image/paper/first mount: 20.9 × 15.2 cm (8 1/4 × 6 in.); Second mount: 50.8 × 37.8 cm (20 × 14 15/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 33, colourfulness 3

Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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