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Photographer Quotes by Berenice Abbott
- I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
- Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
- Photography helps people to see.
- The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
- To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves…
- The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
- You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.
- I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.
- I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does…
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- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams