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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

Berenice Abbott

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it.
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Eye Philosophy Reality
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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Past Photographer Photography
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea.
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Ideas People Photography
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photographer Photography World
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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Photography Space Vision
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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May Merit Photography World
I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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Fall Photographer Photography
The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
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Balance Idea Photography Understanding
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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Agree Certainty Document Photographer
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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Excellence Eye Past Photography
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
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Age Photography Years
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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Needs Photographer World
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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Living Mean Photography Positive Song
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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Connected Live Photograph Serious
Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today.
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Expression Photographer Pulse Related Today
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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Cameras Photographer Preservation

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