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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.

Berenice Abbott

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.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Ideas People Photography
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
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Optimism People Photography Real
If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Lenses Photography Quality Use
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.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Art Photography Qualified Years
I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Girl Nice Photographer
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.
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Hurt Self Understanding
The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework – that to me is the art of photography.
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Art Context Framework Impose Photography Supply
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photographer Photography World
Suppose we took a thousand negatives… combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
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Cities Curiosity Past Photography
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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Believe Photography Real
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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Art Photographer Trouble
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
I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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Havens Impressed Photographer
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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Forever Goes Photography Realizing
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
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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Cameras Eye Photographer

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