Alfred Stieglitz

About Alfred Stieglitz

Inception: 1912

Notable quotes

“Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.”
— Alfred Stieglitz (1887), in the American Annual of Photography 1897.
“I know exactly what I have photographed [in his series 'Equivalents', 1925 - 1934]. I know I have done something that has never been done.. .I also know that there is more of the really abstract in some 'representation' than in most of the dead representations of the so-called abstract so fashionable now.”
— In a letter about his 'Equivalents' to w:Hart Crane; as quoted in Photography as High Art, Hilton Kramer, (1982-12-19)., in 'New York Times'. p. 1. Retrieved 2008-12-26; as quoted on Wikipedia.
“There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.”
— Alfred Stieglitz, as quoted in The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940, M. Orvell (1989). p. 220
“I have always been a great believer in today. Most people live either in the past or in the future, so that they really never live at all. So many people are busy worrying about the future of art or society, they have no time to preserve what is. Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.”
— Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, Sarah Greenough, Washington: National Gallery of Art. 2000, pp. 26–53; as quoted on Wikipedia
“AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.”
— in 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65
“I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession”
— in: 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65

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