Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott, née Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth17 July 1898
CountryUnited States of America
Berenice Abbott quotes about
needs world photographer
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.
eye past excellence
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
cameras photographer preservation
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
photography ideas people
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.
photography real believe
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time...Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism-real life-the now.
quality lenses use
If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
photography art years
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.
art photographer trouble
...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about...
photograph fine documents
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
photography ducks water
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 world imagine
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
fighting alive lasts
I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.
photography art mean
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. 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 emotion teach
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.