Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitzwas 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 is 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth1 January 1864
CountryUnited States of America
Alfred Stieglitz quotes about
I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
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.
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
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.
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.
When I make a picture, I make love.
I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Photography is my passion.
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.
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.
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.