Alfred Steiglitz

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"Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) worked passionately to insure that photography be accepted as a unique art form. His unrelenting dedication to the idea that a photograph was as much an artistic expression as an oil painter's "handwork," lead him to expound on the virtues of aesthetic notions such as light, balance, inner vision, and poetry. To Stieglitz, a photograph could be a poem written in the language of photography.


At the same time that he pronounced the virtues of straight photography (a picture should be a combination of subject, just the right moment, and an artist's unique vision, rather than a product of darkroom manipulation or other painterly contrivances), he encouraged, and became mentor to, photographers who unabashedly imitated the aesthetics of painting. Stieglitz believed that "art is the only true expression of the..."

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