"There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography."
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Alfred Stieglitz, as quoted in The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940, M. Orvell (1989). p. 220
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Alfred Stieglitz
(January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
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