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
photography strong action
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
photographer impressed havens
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!
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.
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.
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 world imagine
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
photography emotion teach
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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.
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.