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 ABBOTTThe 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.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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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.
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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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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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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 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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Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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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.
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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 idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand 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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I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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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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