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Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

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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.

Alive, Choices, Magazine, Magazines, Negative, Prints

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

Art, Heartache, Like, Love Is, Rooted

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

Course, Snow, Stand, Stood, Storm, Winter

The fight for photography became my life.

Became, Fight, Fighting, Life, Photography

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, Immature, Mistake, Photography, Popular, Work

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

Absolute, Absolutes, Everything, Relative, Relatives

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Alone, Differences, People, Perfect, Place

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

Long, Object, Photography, Quality, Technique

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

Ashamed, Like, Looks, Photograph, Photographer, Photographers

Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.

Clean, Maddening, Snow, White, World

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.

Art, Large, People, Photography, Real

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

Done, Men, Photographer, Wrong

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

Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography, Real, Reality

I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany. . . But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship. . . I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?

Art, Back, Felt, Lonely, New York, York

When I make a picture, I make love.

Love, Make, Making Love, Photographer, Picture

I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

Half, Hatred, Real, Reality, Spontaneous, Superstitions

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

Equivalents, Life, Photograph, Photographs, Trying, Vision

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.

Etc, Etching, Eye, Looked, Looks, Seen

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.

Battle, Constant, Equilibrium, Men, Prints, Upset

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

Master, Miracle, Miracles, Piano, Waiting

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