Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
BERENICE ABBOTTActually, 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.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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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?
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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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To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it.
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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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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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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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I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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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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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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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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None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That’s the only way they are going to find themselves. They can’t do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.
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