![]() “There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.” – Alfred Stieglitz Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.” – Alfred Stieglitz or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.” – Alfred Stieglitz “Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.” – Alfred Stieglitz “My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs that unless one has eyes and sees, they won’t be seen – and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.” – Alfred Stieglitz To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.” – 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. All that’s born of spirit seems mad in these of materialism run riot.” – Alfred Stieglitz Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. I am not fighting to make a ‘name’ for myself. It is not photographs – it is not photographers – I am fighting for. ![]() It’s forty years that I have fought its fight – and I’ll fight to the finish – single handed & without money if need be. “I have all but killed myself for Photography. “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.” – Alfred Stieglitz My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.” – Alfred Stieglitz “My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz “…the goal of art was the vital expression of self.” – Alfred Stieglitz “Wherever there is light, one can photograph.” – Alfred Stieglitz ![]() “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.” – Alfred Stieglitz “When I photograph I make love.” – Alfred Stieglitz “Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.” – Alfred Stieglitz Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes by photographer Alfred Stieglitz. ![]()
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