Shock of the new: An American Modernism

New York City’s Armory Show of 1913 was the first major exhibition of modernist art on American soil, and the city has been associated with modernism ever since. Today, perhaps only Paris rivals New York as a center for modernist art. But from 1907 on, one figure began exhibiting works by Europeans in recognition of new aesthetics entering into the art world, while also making major contributions himself in the realms of photography.