Berenice Abbott

Photography helps people to see.

Photography helps people to see.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be read more

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

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

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

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject read more

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.