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Letter "B" » 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.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
«Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
photographed, photography, represent, subject
«Photography helps people to see.»
«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.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
copy, evolve, on your own, pale, ruin
«Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
grow up, imitates, medium, photography, some other
«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.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
acted, give out, initiate, initiated, initiating, photography, sings, subjective
«The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...»
«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.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
ever-changing, exemplified, exemplify, exemplifying, fantastic, real life, renewing, unaware, unparalleled
«I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
«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 objective.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
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