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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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“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

“Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.”

People Feels May Photographer

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.”

Art Self Goal Expression Photographer

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“Photography is my passion.”

Passion Photography Photographer My Passion

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.”

May I Can Artist Photography Photographer Painter Undoing

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“As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.”

Matter Reason Done Facts Names Photography Photographer Financial Following Matter Of Fact

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

“It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.”

Art Care Results Photographer Oneself I Care

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“Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.”

Passion Photography Photographer Obsession My Passion Search For Truth

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.”

Ifs Asks Imagine Photography Photographer Treated Gentleman Guise

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“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

“For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.”

Giving Special Personality Mark Cameras Photographer Familiar Significance

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“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 Beens Able Choices Ability Alive Achieve Produce Higher Paper Gains Negative Ideals Photographer Chosen Magazines Print

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“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

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“There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.”

Men Should Done Accepting Photographer

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.”

Should Art Matter School Form Painting Bases Photographer Works Of Art

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.”

Art Spirit Vision Creativity Genius Photography Photographer Childlike Breadth

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“When I make a picture, I make love.”

Photographer Making Love

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

About the Author

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

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