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...Wagnerian. In 1882 a young man from Hoboken named Alfred Stieglitz was in Germany studying engineering. In a Berlin shop window he saw a camera, and without hesitation went in and bought it. "Fate," he said later, "took me to that shop." He came to produce the finest body of photos yet made by a single artist. He was an accomplished technician, yet he kept insisting that technique was of minor importance. What mattered to him was art-the creation of "equivalents" for reality...
Evans broke the old man's fanatically artistic spell by taking clear, cold, head-on pictures of ordinary people and things. "After Stieglitz's real work was done," says Realist Evans, "he became a very arty old man and a Wagnerian man if there ever was one-a great old fiddler and lace-maker." Evans' realistic approach has inspired a generation of photographers, among them Margaret Bourke-White, who first made her mark photographing industry, and Dorothea Lange, who photographed California's migratory pea-pickers to show the effects of the Depression. Echoing the early Weegee...
Even late in life, said Dr. Edward J. Stieglitz, a change of job may still be the key to improved mental and physical health. Dr. Stieglitz cited the case of a man who had worked in a bank since he was 15-because his parents had thought that this was a secure and respectable way to make a living. But he was frustrated; he wanted to work with his hands, and at 63 he was nervous, underweight and developing an ulcer. When he realized what his trouble was, he went to work in a furniture factory. The satisfaction of making...
...saying that "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," said Dr. Stieglitz, is a falsehood spread by young men who want their elders out of the way and by lazy oldsters who want an excuse for doing nothing...
...lean, black-bearded man of 49, Adams has roamed the mountain country most of his life. The pioneer U.S. Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) strongly influenced his art, helped make it known. Like Stieglitz, Adams is a brilliant teacher and technician who believes that photography can be as pure an art form as any other. But, says he, "Creation within the strict limitations of the medium is the basic law of pure photography as in all the other arts...