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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.
Alfred Stieglitz
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Alfred Stieglitz
Age: 81 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
Exhibition Curator
Photographer
Photography Critic
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Hoboken
New Jersey
Alfred Steiglitz
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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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If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
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Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.
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I detest tradition for tradition's sake the half-alive that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.
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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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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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When I make a picture, I make love.
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To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.
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As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.
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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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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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Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
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Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
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Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
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There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.
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Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
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I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.
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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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Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
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