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
photography art men
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.
photography simple artist
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.
photography men sky
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.
photography art pieces
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
photography men records
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
groups exhibitions finishing
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.
photography men earth
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
photography art self
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.
photography mistake artist
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
photography feelings records
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
photography perfect daguerreotypes
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
nature real light
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.
photography photograph thousand
A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
photography art sake
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.