For this assignment, you are required to listen to Dr. Budd’s presentation on the American Avant Garde focusing on the Ashcan School, the scene around Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291, and Precision-ism. Write an essay that describes photography&#x

• Write an essay that describes photography’s impact on Modernism, and on painting in particular.
• Describe how photography changed the priorities of painting beginning in the 1840s.
• Describe how Alfred Stieglitz and Gallery 291 became a force in the American Avant-Garde.
• Talk about photography’s unique character as a Modernist tool in art. What makes photography particularly Modernist?