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Berenice Abbott

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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Mean Philosophy Photography
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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Cities Curiosity Past Photography
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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Document Fine Photograph
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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Optimism People Photography Real
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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Hurt Self Understanding
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
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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Cameras Talking Themselves Way
Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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Emotion Photography Teach
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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Decision Important Photography Thinking
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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Photographer Photography World
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
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
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
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
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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Age Photography Years
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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Needs Photographer World

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