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… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
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… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera... notes with relentless fidelity. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher.… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
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.… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
