As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which militate against it be opposed and destroyed.
"Alfred Stieglitz" was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz is known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous photographers! More Alfred Stieglitz on Wikipedia.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 goal of art was the vital expression of self.
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
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.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz.
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