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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. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

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. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.

Berenice Abbott

What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. 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. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. 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.

Berenice Abbott

Human

Photography helps people to see. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

Photography helps people to see.

Berenice Abbott

American Photographer People

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is... - Berenice Abbott Quotes

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...

Berenice Abbott

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Berenice Abbott

American Photographer Past

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. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

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.

Berenice Abbott

American Photographer Teachers And Teaching

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Berenice Abbott

American Photographer Photography

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. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

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.

Berenice Abbott

American Photographer

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. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

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.

Berenice Abbott

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting. - Berenice Abbott Quotes

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Berenice Abbott

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