I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
“I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!” … Read More
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 is at home in its element: namely, realism – real life – the now.
“I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to … Read More
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
“I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not … Read More
I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
“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 a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, … Read More
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
“Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind … 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 word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework – that to me is the art of photography.
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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.
“You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you … 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 was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
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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 better organized image.
“Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to … 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 heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
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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 to free us for seeing.
“What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as … 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 do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.
“None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking … 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 of both science and art.
“Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. … 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 word, I have tried to be objective.
“The challenge for me has first been to see things as … 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 this day and age is laughable.
“Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of … 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 strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
“Suppose we took a thousand negatives…combining the elegances, the squalor, 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 are esthetically often a virtue.
“The lens freezes time and space in what may be an … Read More
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
“The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes … Read More
What to me is anathema – a corpse-like, outmoded hangover – is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. … Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?
“What to me is anathema – a corpse-like, outmoded hangover – … Read More