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.
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.Edward Steichen
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
Edward Steichen
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
Edward Steichen
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
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Edward Steichen
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