"I do not object to retouching, dodging or……" — Alfred Stieglitz

"I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique."

— Alfred Stieglitz

42 Quotes by Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its…
Photography is my passion.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who…
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct…
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a…
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz,…
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints…
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by…
My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably…

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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. — Ansel Adams
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out… — Leonard Cohen
What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line?… — John Sedgwick
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end… — Lynn Abbey
I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . .… — Herbert Croly
My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations.… — Bobby Sands
Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults:… — Josiah Stamp
I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a… — Mary Pope Osborne
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested… — Gene Tunney
I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to… — Frank Lautenberg
It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead… — Karl Marx
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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"I do not object to retouching, dodging or……" — Alfred Stieglitz

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