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 ABBOTTThe 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.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
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I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
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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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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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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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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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