| A few pioneers like Alfred Stieglitz were trying to establish photography as a fine art. |
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| Stieglitz began to talk of banishing the painterly poetic fog from photography. |
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| For Sheeler, perhaps even more than for Stieglitz, Strand, and others, photography was a socially uncommitted art, whose purpose was to seek and reveal expressive form. |
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| Of course, Brennan's purpose is to revise the idea that formalism was monolithic and uninventive, not to situate the Stieglitz circle's aesthetics in historical context. |
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| Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike. |
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| Americans have long been important in the modern artistic medium of photography, with major photographers including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adams. |
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