A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.Edward Steichen
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
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
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Edward Steichen
You know... that a blank wall is an appalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Edward Steichen
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen
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