Alfred Stieglitz

"Alfred Stieglitz was responsible for elevating photography from a craft to an Art Form"

     
I think this statement is true, because he believed in himself. The video shows him doing many different things in life, and always taking his camera with him. He made his goals to show the world that photography is real art. 




"The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. "

       That is the definition of art that dictionary.com gave me. If this was what Alfred was trying to prove, then that's what he did. He spent just as much time as any other artist working on his images.  He spent vacation in Italy and Germany taking photos of people, places and things, just as a painter would spend their time painting. He expressed feeling very well in his photos. When he was with his wife and taking pictures of her, you could see the failure in their marriage from her body language from one of the photos in the film. 




        He made it significant because he dedicated his entire life to it. When he had a daughter and a family, he took photos of them, but couldn't focus on them because of his fierce passion for photography. He did motion photos, portraits and just random photos of the places he went to. 




         I think he succeeded in showing the world that photography isn't a lazy way to do art. People needed to see that it's not easy to capture a photo that is appealing to the eye. The thing with photography is that the photographer doesn't paint something to make it beautiful and unique, the photographer has to find something and take an amazing photo of it. They have to take something that's already completed and maybe not so pretty and create angle, and follow the rules of composition to make it am appealing photo, and that's not simple, but Alfred did it.