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
photographer impressed havens
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!
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.
cameras photographer preservation
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
art photographer trouble
...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about...
photography people photographer
Photography helps people to see.
photography past photographer
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
photography fall photographer
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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 philosophy mean
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. 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. 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.
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.
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.