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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.

Berenice Abbott

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
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
I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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Havens Impressed Photographer
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
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Duck Photography Water
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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Living Mean Photography Positive Song
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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Excellence Eye Past Photography
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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Cameras Photographer Preservation
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 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
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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Agree Certainty Document Photographer
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
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
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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Past Photographer Photography
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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Drawing Light 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
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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Needs Photography Real Structure

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