Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen
Edward Jean Steichenwas a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth27 March 1879
CityBivange, Luxembourg
CountryUnited States of America
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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
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If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
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Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
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Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.
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A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
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When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.
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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.