Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. — 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
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. — 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… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting. — 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… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — 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… — 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,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should… — 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… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified… — 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… — 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
