When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. Edward Steichen More Quotes by Edward Steichen More Quotes From 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 photography men art A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. Edward Steichen cameras photography inspirational Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. Edward Steichen pieces photography art Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed. Edward Steichen photography artist simple Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. Edward Steichen awe vision feels Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. Edward Steichen photography sky men The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious. Edward Steichen girl mother baby Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. Edward Steichen records photography men 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 photography earth men Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. Edward Steichen birthday men years Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. Edward Steichen photography faces feelings 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 nature light real A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words. Edward Steichen thousand photography photographer No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. Edward Steichen cameras photography photographer Every photograph is a fake from start to finish. Edward Steichen fake photograph 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. Edward Steichen patterns photography people If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things. Edward Steichen exhibitions finishing groups 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. Edward Steichen photography artist mistake A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. Edward Steichen daguerreotypes photography perfect You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... Edward Steichen wall typewriters museums
