I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
BERENICE ABBOTTI think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
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Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
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What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.
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I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
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The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens’ vision are esthetically often a virtue.
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To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
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The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
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I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
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Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.
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I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism – real life – the now.
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I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I’m the one to do it.
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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I’m not a nice girl; I’m a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )
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The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.
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Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.
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The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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