Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
Alfred StieglitzMy photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the worldโs constant upsetting of manโs equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.
Alfred StieglitzIn photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz