![]() ![]() “There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.” – Alfred Stieglitz Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.” – Alfred Stieglitz or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.” – Alfred Stieglitz “Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.” – Alfred Stieglitz “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 having once looked at them.” – Alfred Stieglitz To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.” – Alfred Stieglitz ![]() “My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. All that’s born of spirit seems mad in these of materialism run riot.” – Alfred Stieglitz Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. I am not fighting to make a ‘name’ for myself. It is not photographs – it is not photographers – I am fighting for. It’s forty years that I have fought its fight – and I’ll fight to the finish – single handed & without money if need be. “I have all but killed myself for Photography. “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.” – Alfred Stieglitz My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.” – Alfred Stieglitz “My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz “…the goal of art was the vital expression of self.” – Alfred Stieglitz “Wherever there is light, one can photograph.” – Alfred Stieglitz “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.” – Alfred Stieglitz ![]() “When I photograph I make love.” – Alfred Stieglitz “Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.” – Alfred Stieglitz Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes by photographer Alfred Stieglitz. ![]()
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