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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

Berenice Abbott

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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Document Fine Photograph
I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Girl Nice Photographer
Suppose we took a thousand negatives… combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
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Cities Curiosity Past Photography
The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework – that to me is the art of photography.
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Art Context Framework Impose Photography Supply
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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Decision Important Photography Thinking
I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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Fall Photographer Photography
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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Cameras Eye Photographer
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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Mean Philosophy Photography
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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Art Photographer Trouble
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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Art Photography Qualified Years
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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May Merit Photography World
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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Forever Goes Photography Realizing
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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Excellence Eye Past Photography
It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
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Penetrate Photography Selectivity Simple Term
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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Documentary Photographer World
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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Expression Mean Photography

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