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.
BERENICE ABBOTTThe camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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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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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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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 art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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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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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 haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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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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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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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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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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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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What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.
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