I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
BERENICE ABBOTTI am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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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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Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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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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I’m not a nice girl; I’m a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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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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The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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