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 ABBOTTIt is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.
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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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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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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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The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
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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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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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If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
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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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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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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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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 agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens’ vision are esthetically often a virtue.
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