"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting not sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings… You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And if so you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today."
Alfred Stieglitz, 1864-1946
American
- Important because he made photography an accepted art form
- Best known for strong compositions, skies citiscapes or subjects nearly abstracted, capturing moments to tell a story with a photograph (photojournalism)
- Editor/Publisher of Camera Work magazine (1903-1917)
- 'Gallery 291' in New York
- "star maker" for photographers, writers, and painters
- Had an affair with, and in 1924 married painter Georgia O'Keefe, whom he photographed extensively (see above),
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