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
eye past excellence
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
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 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 emotion teach
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
eye cameras fidelity
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
photography fall photographer
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
photography exercise simple
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
photography song mean
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.
photography mean expression
Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.
photography past photographer
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
photography people photographer
Photography helps people to see.
photography growing-up mediums
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
real people unexpected
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
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.