“I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it … Read More
“I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.” Berenice Abbott
“I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!” Berenice Abbott
“Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world – good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a … Read More
“I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.” Berenice Abbott
“I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.” Berenice Abbott
“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 … Read More
“Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.” Berenice Abbott
“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 … Read More
“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.” … Read More
“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. That … Read More
“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 a … Read More
“If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our … Read More
“What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications … Read More
“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 can’t … Read More
“Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring … Read More
“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 … Read More
“Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in … Read More
“Suppose we took a thousand negatives…combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the … Read More
“The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens’ vision … Read More
