Quotes by Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott

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.

Age

Photography

Years

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.

Mean

Photography

Song

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.

Agree

Doe

Photographer

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Alive

Fighting

Lasts

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

Documents

Fine

Photograph

I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!

Havens

Impressed

Photographer

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

Decision

Important

Thinking

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.

Ducks

Photography

Water

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.

Ideas

People

Photography

I’m not a nice girl; I’m a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

Art

Girl

Nice

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Age

Agree

Alive

Art

Cameras

Challenges

Cities

Curiosity

Decision

Documents

Doe

Drawing

Ducks

Exercise

Fighting

Fine

Forever

Girl

Goes On

Havens

Helping

Ideas

Important

Impressed

Inspirational

Lasts

Lenses

Light

May

Mean

Merit

Needs

Nice

Past

People

Photograph

Photographer

Photography

Portraits

Quality

Reality

Realizing

Responsibility

Ruins

Simple

Song

Space

Talking

Teacher

Thinking

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Quotes by Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott

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.

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.

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

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.

I’m not a nice girl; I’m a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

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