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.
BERENICE ABBOTT
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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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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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.
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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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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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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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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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 doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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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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