Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. — 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
