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Alfred Stieglitz Quotes

1864–1946 United States

Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form.

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Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

Alfred Stieglitz (1887)

There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.

When I make a photograph, I make love.

I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession

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.

Nearly right is child's play

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Stieglitz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.