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Alfred Stieglitz, born on January 1, 1864, and died on July 13, 1946, was an American photographer renowned for his innovative artistic photography and photographic theories. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern photography.

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Famous Alfred Stieglitz Quotes

“Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.”

Ideas Term Poor Attention Mistake Photography Let Me Photograph Productions Excuse Excellent Immature Excellent Work

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)”

Perfect Standards Photographer Photograph Comment Rejected Rotten Publication

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“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Inspirational Art Real Reality Inspiring Photography Photographer Photograph Subtle My Passion Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Great Photography Inspiring Photography Amazing Beautiful

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

“Wherever there is light, one can photograph.”

Light Photography Photographer Photograph Photography By Photographers Photography And Light

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“Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.”

Looks Photographer Photograph Ashamed

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“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.”

Years Hands Ability Results Photography Labor Instinct Photographer Photograph Artistic

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.”

Men World Shows Battle Eternal Constant Chaos Photographer Photograph Upset Print Equilibrium Chaos In The World

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.”

Looks Stills Eye Forget Painting Aim Photographer Photograph Etc Never Forget Etching

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.”

Art Philosophy Artist Creativity Life Philosophy Photography Art Is Profound Photograph Clouds Life Experience

Book:Alfred Stieglitz

Source: Alfred Stieglitz

“I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.”

Trying Form Vision Photograph Vision Of Life

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

About the Author

Born: January 1, 1864
Died: July 13, 1946
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 47

Books & Sources

Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notesRelated source material

Alfred Stieglitz: an American seerRelated source material

Alfred StieglitzRelated source material

Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty MuseumRelated source material

My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933Related source material

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