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

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

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Alfred Stieglitz

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. more

“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

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“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

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“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

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“All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.”

Want Wonderful Preserves

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

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

“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

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