“The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.” YearsHandsAbilityResultsPhotographyLaborInstinctPhotographerPhotographArtistic Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes
“My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.” Has BeensAbleChoicesAbilityAliveAchieveProduceHigherPaperGainsNegativeIdealsPhotographerChosenMagazinesPrint Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes
