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

Berenice Abbott

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.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Needs Photography Real Structure
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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Art Bowery Girl Nice 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
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’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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Girl Nice Photographer
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 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
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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Believe Photography Real
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
Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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Documents Good Photographer Probe Subject Uncover
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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Connected Live Photograph Serious
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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Art Photographer Trouble
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
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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Cameras Photographer Preservation
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.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Needs Photographer World
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.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Expression Photographer Pulse Related Today

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