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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

Topics: Bark Branches Coming Course Had Itself Knew Light Magician Plants Reached Real Realize Roots Stems Toward Trees Up

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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

Topics: Beauty Confusion Created Earth Explaining Face Feelings Force Human Human Face Inherited Major Man Photography Records Skies Wealth Written

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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Artist Begins Blank Blank Canvas Canvas Every Finished Finished Product Other Paper Photographer Piece Product

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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Afterwards Anything Anything Else Clicks Consideration Done Else Shutter Worth

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Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Commence Feel Once Really See Then Things You

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Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Every Give Good Himself Kick Man Pants Should Ten Ten Years Years

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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.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Art Artist Content Creates Experience Form Gives Ideas Insight Least Medium Misleading Photography Say Term Thought Understanding Use Work

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Explaining Force Major Man Photography

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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Camera Good Photographer Simplest

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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

Topics: Complicated Each Earth Explain Himself Man Mission Most Photography Thing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: March 27th, 1879

Died: March 25th, 1973

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