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None. They should just go out...

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.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

The challenge for me has firs...

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. 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 58 quotes

Some people are still unaware...

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 58 quotes

I wanted to combine science a...

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

What we need of equipment is ...

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

Photography is not only drawi...

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.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

Pictures are wasted unless th...

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

What the human eye observes c...

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

Actually, documentary picture...

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 document.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

The photographer is the conte...

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

Suppose we took a thousand ne...

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.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

If a medium is representation...

If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

Like every other means of expr...

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.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

To chart a course, one must ha...

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, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

I have yet to see a fine photo...

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

I think the important decision...

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a pho...

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 )

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

What we need of equipment is t...

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

The challenge for me has first...

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.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

The photographer is the contem...

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

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