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On his return york Stieglitz to New York Stieglitz found that while there were many Camera clubs and photographic societies, none of them seemed to have the passionate belief in the art of photography that was rapidly spreading throughout Europe. He was elected a director of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, became editor of The American Amateur Photographer, and through his photographs and writings, through his publication of others' work, through lectures and demonstrations, he showed Americans aesthetic potentials of photography which they had not yet realized.

42.The Photo-Secession, no. I (1902), p. 1. 43. Alfred Stieglitz, "The Photo-Secession at the National Arts Club, New York," Photograms of the Year, pp. 17-20. 44. New York Evening Sun; reprinted in Camera Notes, vol. 6 (1902), p. 39. 45. Photography, vol. 7 (1904), p. 243. 46. The Photo-Secession, no. 5 (1904), p. 2. 47. Photography News, vol. 53 (1908), p. 268. 48. Frederick H. Evans to Alfred Stieglitz, December 6, 1908, Stieglitz Archives, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Among the last photographs Stieglitz made (poor health forced him to abandon using the Camera around 1937) were pictures of New York taken from high windows, and the meadows and trees around the old family house at Lake George, where he spent his summers. He continued all the while to champion modern art: at An American Place, his New York gallery, he continued the series of painting exhibitions, along with occasional photographic shows, up until his death in 1946. Stieglitz TO always there, and from him many a young person found counsel and direction.