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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

I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Girl Nice Photographer
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 Photographer Pulse Related Today
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Inspirational Photography Ruin Teacher
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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Reality Responsibility Today
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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Document Fine Photograph
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Cameras Eye Photographer
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
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
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
Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Emotion Photography Teach
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism – real life – the now.
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Believe Photography Real
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
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Age Photography Years
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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Decision Important Photography Thinking
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 Photographer World
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 ABBOTT

May Merit Photography World
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photographer Photography World

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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