291 is the commonly known name for an internationally famous art gallery that was located in Midtown Manhattan at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York City from 1905 to 1917. Originally called the "Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession", the gallery was established and managed by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
View of the Gertrude Käsebier and Clarence H. White exhibition at the Little Galleries of the Photo Secession, 1906 (published in Camera Work, No. 14, 1906)
View of the Constantin Brâncuși exhibition at 291, 1914 (published in Camera Work, no. 48, 1916)
291 Fifth Avenue (right), 293 Fifth Avenue (left), before 1913
View of the Elie Nadelman exhibition at 291, 1915 (published in Camera Work, no. 48, 1916)
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
Autochrome self-portrait, c. 1907
1886 self-portrait
Alfred Stieglitz, The Last Joke, Bellagio, 1887
The Terminal (1893) by Alfred Stieglitz