Maxioms by Berenice Abbott
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.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the read more
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.
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.
Photography helps people to see.
Photography helps people to see.
