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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred Stieglitz
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Alfred Stieglitz
Age: 81 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
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Photography Critic
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Hoboken
New Jersey
Alfred Steiglitz
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There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
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