My 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 StieglitzFor that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.
Alfred StieglitzIf you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
Alfred Stieglitz