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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.

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.
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May Merit Photography World
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
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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Past Photographer Photography
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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Accurate More Photographer Seeing Sharpy
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
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 Space Vision
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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Eye Philosophy Reality
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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Excellence Eye Past Photography
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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Alive Fighting Lasts Photography
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
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
I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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Fall Photographer Photography
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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Reality Responsibility Today
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photographer Photography World
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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Lenses Photography Quality Use
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
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Age Photography Years

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