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.
BERENICE ABBOTTThe 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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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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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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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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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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The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the 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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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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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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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
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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. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
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I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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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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