Photography Quote by Berenice Abbott Download Open image “The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.” — Berenice Abbott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photography Preservation
The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument. — George Stevens Copy Share Image
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay. — Peter Wollen Copy Share Image
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee Copy Share Image
The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things… — Marcel Proust 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
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a… — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
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