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.
BERENICE ABBOTTI 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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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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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 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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The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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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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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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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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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 photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
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Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
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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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