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Berenice Abbott
American
Photographer
About the author
Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott,
American
Photographer
#People
#Photography
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott,
American
Photographer
#Life
#Death
#Photography
#Positive
#Act
#Living
#Song
#Word
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
Berenice Abbott,
American
Photographer
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott,
American
Photographer
#Past
#Photography
#Present
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
Berenice Abbott,
American
Photographer
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott,
American
Photographer
#First
#Challenge
#Word
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Berenice Abbott,
American
Photographer
#Ruin
#Teachers
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott,
American
Photographer
#Photography