I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.
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Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.Berenice Abbott
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
Berenice Abbott
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
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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