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

BERENICE ABBOTT

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

Berenice Abbott

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I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
BERENICE ABBOTT

Havens Impressed
Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.

BERENICE ABBOTT

Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Living Mean
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
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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Cameras Talking Themselves Way
I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.

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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Nice
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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Goes Realizing
I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

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I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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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.

BERENICE ABBOTT

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.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Real
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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Hangover Looks
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 am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Fighting Lasts
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 Selectivity Simple Term
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 ABBOTT

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 ABBOTT

May Merit
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
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
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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Certainty Document
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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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

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