Edward Steichen Quotes

United States, Photographer
March 27, 1879 – March, 25, 1973.

Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. Steichen was the most frequently shown photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Together Stieglitz and Steichen opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which eventually became known as 291 after its address.

Also known as Painter

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
- Work
- Art
- Experience
I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Edward Steichen
- Real
- Light
- Magician

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

Edward Steichen
- Photography
- Record
- Gamut
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
- Up
- Real
- Light
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Edward Steichen
- Camera
- Side
- Portrait
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

Edward Steichen
- Things
- Commence