Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen
Edward Jean Steichenwas a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth27 March 1879
CityBivange, Luxembourg
CountryUnited States of America
photography art self
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.
photography real light
I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...
photography art sake
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
photography people patterns
The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.
fake photograph
Every photograph is a fake from start to finish,
wall typewriters museums
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling 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.
photography spring mean
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.
photography art ideas
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.
men optimism earth
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.
photography perfect daguerreotypes
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
photography feelings records
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
photography mistake artist
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
photography cameras photographer
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
birthday men years
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.