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 ABBOTTDoes not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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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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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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I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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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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I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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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 can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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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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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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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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Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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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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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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