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
real needs equipment
What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.
photography years age
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.
photographer impressed havens
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!
hurt self understanding
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.
world documentaries photograph
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
responsibility reality today
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
photography hangover looks
What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?
photography space vision
The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.
past cities curiosity
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.
world may merit
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
girl nice photographer
I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.
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.