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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

Berenice Abbott

What to me is anathema – a corpse-like, outmoded hangover – is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. … Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?
BERENICE ABBOTT

Hangover Looks Photography
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.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Cameras Talking Themselves Way
Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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Documents Good Photographer Probe Subject Uncover
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Decision Important Photography Thinking
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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Art Bowery Girl Nice Photography
I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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Fall Photographer Photography
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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Art Photography Qualified Years
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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Expression Photographer Pulse Related Today
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 ABBOTT

Expression Mean Photography
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Eye Philosophy Reality
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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May Merit Photography World
I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Girl Nice Photographer
The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Balance Idea Photography Understanding
Self-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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Hurt Self Understanding
It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
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Penetrate Photography Selectivity Simple Term
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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Excellence Eye Past Photography

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