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.
BERENICE ABBOTTThe camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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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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What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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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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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.
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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 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 agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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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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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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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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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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