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.
BERENICE ABBOTTSelf-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.
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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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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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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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The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
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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 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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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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Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality.
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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 agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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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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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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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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