Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.
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The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.Alfred Stieglitz
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
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As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which militate against it be opposed and destroyed.
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The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
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