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Alfred Stieglitz
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“Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings.. .You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Is Photography a Failure?', Alfred Stieglitz, 'Sun: 5.', March 14, 1922; as quoted on Wikipedia
“Atmosphere is the medium through which we see all things. In order, therefore, to see them in their true value on a photograph, as we do in Nature, atmosphere must be there. Atmosphere softens all lines; it graduates the transition from light to shade; it is essential to the reproduction of the sense of distance. That dimness of outline which is characteristic for distant objects is due to atmosphere. Now, what atmosphere is to Nature, tone is to a picture.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: 'A Plea for Art Photography in America', Alfred Stieglitz, in 'Photographic Mosaics,' Vol 28, 1892: About Pictorialism.
“Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alfred Stieglitz (1887), in the American Annual of Photography 1897.
“to show that [the success of my portray-] photographs was not due to subject matter – not to special trees or faces, or interiors, to special privileges – clouds were there for everyone.. .I wanted to photograph clouds to find out what I had learned in forty years about photography. Through clouds to put down my philosophy of life.. .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 them having once looked at them.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'How I came to Photograph Clouds', Alfred Stieglitz, in 'Amateur Photographer and Photography', (19 September 1923): 255.
“I know exactly what I have photographed [in his series 'Equivalents', 1925 - 1934]. I know I have done something that has never been done.. .I also know that there is more of the really abstract in some 'representation' than in most of the dead representations of the so-called abstract so fashionable now.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter about his 'Equivalents' to w:Hart Crane; as quoted in Photography as High Art, Hilton Kramer, (1982-12-19)., in 'New York Times'. p. 1. Retrieved 2008-12-26; as quoted on Wikipedia.
“There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alfred Stieglitz, as quoted in The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940, M. Orvell (1989). p. 220
“I have always been a great believer in today. Most people live either in the past or in the future, so that they really never live at all. So many people are busy worrying about the future of art or society, they have no time to preserve what is. Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, Sarah Greenough, Washington: National Gallery of Art. 2000, pp. 26–53; as quoted on Wikipedia
“Nearly right is child's play”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, Sarah Greenough, Washington: National Gallery of Art. 2000, pp. 26–53; as quoted on Wikipedia
“Man: [looking at a Stieglitz's photo of 'Equivalents'] Is this a photograph of water? Stieglitz: What difference does it make of what it is a photograph? Man: But is it a photograph of water? Stieglitz: I tell you it does not matter. Man: Well, then, is it a picture of the sky? Stieglitz: It happens to be a picture of the sky. But I cannot understand why that is of any importance.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: 'Minor White, A Living Remembrance', Dorothy Norman, in 'Aperture', 1984, p. 9.
“AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65
“When I make a photograph, I make love.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65
“I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in: 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65