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.
BERENICE ABBOTTLike 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.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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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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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.
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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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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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I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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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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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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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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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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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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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.
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Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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