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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

“Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.”

People Mean Art Real Matter Artist Term Taught Essentials Photography Really Mean Meaning Of Art

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“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

“Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.”

Wells Lasts Photography Legs Thanks Bicycle Fads Craze

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“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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“The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.”

Art Process Possibility Expression Photography Department

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“I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.”

World Years Feelings Seems Running Spirit Fighting Passion Names Born Struggle Greater Photography Mad These Days Forty Materialism My Passion Riot

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“I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.”

Long Natural Quality Objects Photography Technique Interfere Retouching

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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

“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

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“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

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“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

“The fight for photography became my life.”

Fighting Photography

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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