Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
More Quotes from Berenice Abbott:
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.Berenice Abbott
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott
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.
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
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
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
Berenice Abbott
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