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.
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.
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Suppose we took a thousand negatives… combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
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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.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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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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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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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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What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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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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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality.
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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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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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I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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