Quotes by Berenice Abbott

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  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.
  Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

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  Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
  Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

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

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  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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  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.
  Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

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  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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  What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.