The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. - Berenice Abbott
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
- Berenice Abbott
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 th… - Berenice Abbott
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 th…
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good d… - Berenice Abbott
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good d…
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, a… - Berenice Abbott
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, a…
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world… - Berenice Abbott
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world…
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, … - Berenice Abbott
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, …
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, someth… - Berenice Abbott
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, someth…
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be o… - Berenice Abbott
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be o…
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
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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