The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
BERENICE ABBOTTThe 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.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.
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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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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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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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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 never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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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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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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What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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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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The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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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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The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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