I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
BERENICE ABBOTTI 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.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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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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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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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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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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What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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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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