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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.
Alfred Stieglitz
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Alfred Stieglitz
Age: 81 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
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New Jersey
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For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.
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I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
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The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.
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Photography is my passion.
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When I make a picture, I make love.
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The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below circular iron machinery a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.
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