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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

Berenice Abbott

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
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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Art Photography Qualified Years
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
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world – good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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Documentary Photographer World
None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That’s the only way they are going to find themselves. They can’t do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.
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Cameras Talking Themselves Way
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 Mean Photography
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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Art Bowery Girl Nice 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
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
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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Drawing Light Photography
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
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
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
Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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Documents Good Photographer Probe Subject Uncover
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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Past Photographer Photography
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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Art Photographer Trouble

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