With the eye of the machine, Stieglitz ... has shown that the portrait of an individual is really the sum of a hundred or more photographs. He has looked with three eyes and has been able to hold, by purely photographic means, space-filling, tonality and tactility, line and form, that moment when the forces at work in a human being become most intensely physical and objective. In thus revealing the spirit of the individual he has documented the world of that individual, which is today.

Paul Strand, 'Photography and the New God,' Broom, v.3, pp. 252—8, 1922. Reprinted in Nathan Lyons, ed., Photographers on Photography. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc. in collaboration with George Eastman House, 1966.

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