Winter, Fifth Avenue

[1] Stieglitz later wrote that this photograph was the result of a three-hour wait in a rather inclement snow storm: “In order to obtain pictures by means of the hand camera it is well to choose your subject, regardless of figures, and carefully study the lines and lighting.

After having determined upon these watch the passing figures and await the moment in which everything is in balance; that is, satisfies your eye.

My picture, ‘Fifth Avenue, Winter,’ is the result of a three hours’ stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd, 1893, awaiting the proper moment.

Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired picture.

"[2] The picture depicts a carriage driving through a snowy urban landscape.