#photograph

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#arts #became #cheese #each #explain

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#more #photography #real #reality #subtle

Wherever there is light, one can photograph. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#photograph #wherever

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#completely #i #life #my life #peace

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#children #first #i #just #older

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#families #i #know #known #long

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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