ublished in 1915 as a special supplement to No. 7-8 of Camera Work; 13 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches (33.3 x 26.4 cm).
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918, platinum print, 11.7 x 9 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 inches), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Painter Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) was married to Stieglitz. See feminism and feminist art.
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1921, palladium print, 23.6 x 19.2 cm (9 5/16 x 7 9/16 inches), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Alice Boughton (American, 1865-1943), Untitled (Head of a Woman with Tousled Hair), glycerine-developed platinum print, c. 1905, American Museum of Photography.
Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879-1973), The Flatiron, 1904, printed 1909, depicted: New York City, New York, United States of America, gum bichromate over platinum print, 47.8 x 38.4 cm (18 13/16 x 15 1/8 inches), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Edward Steichen, Balzac, The Silhouette - 4 A.M., 1908, depicted: Meudon, France, gum bichromate print, 37.9 x 46 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/8 inches), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883-1976), Alfred Stieglitz in American Place, 1934, gelatin silver print, 24.1 x 19.0 cm, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. American Place was Stieglitz's gallery in later years.
Photoshop - A sophisticated software program, produced by Adobe Systems, for altering and processing digital photographs and other digital images.
Also see GraphicConverter.
photoscreen - A technique employing photographic processes to create stencil screens from graphic images, which then become part of complex printing or painting processes.
Also see silkscreen.
pi - The sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, which in mathematics stands for a transcendental number, approximately 3.14, which expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and appears as a constant in many mathematical expressions. If you need it carried a few places further to the right [quite unlikely actually, but just in case, here are 52]:
pi = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937511
2 pi = 6.283185306
Pi squared = 9.86960440108935861883
The square root of pi = 1.772453851
In China, pi is a bee which symbolizes heaven; a jade disk.
piano nobile - In Renaissance architecture, the principal story, usually the second (the floor just above [what in America is known as] the first or ground floor).
pica - In typography, a unit of measurement in which there are 12 points to a pica and 6 picas to an inch.
picassiette - See pique assiette.
pick - A tool consisting of a curved iron bar with a point at one end and a chisel edge at the other, fitted to a long handle, and used to quarry, mine and break stones, and also to shape them in the most basic way.
pickle - An acid solution in which to soak metals either to clean them or to achieve an artificial patina. Many metals, including bronze and silver, when newly cast are covered with oxides which are easily removed by pickling.
PICT - Macintosh Picture. A storage format for digital images designed primarily for Macintosh computers. Other digital image file formats include GIF (Graphic Image File), JFIF, JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), AI (Adobe PhotoShop), APS (Adobe PhotoShop), PICT (Macintosh Picture), and TIFF.
Also see Adobe, GraphicConverter, and Photoshop.
pictogram - See pictograph.
pictograph - Also called a pictogram, figurative drawing or picture representing a word, sound or idea. Earliest form in the evolution of a system of writing. An example is the ancient Egyptian writing called hieroglyphs. This method of communication is still used today by certain civilisations including Chinese, Japanese, and American Indians. It may also refer to a pictorial representation of numerical data or relationships, especially a graph, but having each value represented by a proportional number of pictures.
In this series of pictographs the message is "I go with boat to that island. I sleep there, then go to another island. I sleep there twice. (Two nights.) I hunt and catch one sea lion."
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