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I wanted to combine science an...

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.

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I agree that all good photogra...

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it

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The photographer is the contem...

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

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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.

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Actually, documentary pictures...

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.

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Photography can never grow up ...

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

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Pictures are wasted unless the...

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

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Let us first say what photogra...

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.

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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. 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.

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I took to photography like a d...

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

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The camera is no more an instr...

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

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I didn't decide to be a photog...

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

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I am so fascinated with this c...

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

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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.

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Does not the very word 'creati...

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.

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The photograph may be presente...

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

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There are many teachers who co...

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.

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Photography can only represent...

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

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The camera is no more an instr...

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

Berenice Abbott 58 quotes

Photography helps people to se...

Photography helps people to see.

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