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When I make a picture, I make love.
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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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
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Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
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My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.
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I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
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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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We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
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Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
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I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?
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My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.
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The fight for photography became my life.
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If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.
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A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.
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It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.
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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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Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.
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The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
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All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.
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Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
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Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
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