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I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

Berenice Abbott

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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Needs Photography Real Structure
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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Art Photographer Trouble
I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Girl Nice Photographer
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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Documentary Photographer World
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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Document Fine Photograph
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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Growing Photography Walks
The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.
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Forever Goes Photography Realizing
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
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?
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Hangover Looks Photography
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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Exercise Photography Simple
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
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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Optimism People Photography Real
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photographer Photography World
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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Ideas People Photography
Suppose we took a thousand negatives… combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
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Cities Curiosity Past Photography
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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Agree Certainty Document Photographer

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

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