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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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.

Berenice Abbott

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Responsibility Today
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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Cameras Eye
Photography helps people to see.
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Helping
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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Accurate More Seeing Sharpy
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 Selectivity Simple Term
The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
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Balance Idea
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

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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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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
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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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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Fighting Lasts
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I’m the one to do it.

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You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I’m the one to do it.
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Needs
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

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The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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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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Lenses Use
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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Connected
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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Simple
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
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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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