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Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott
American Photographer
Born: Jul 17, 1898
Died: Dec 9, 1991
Before Death Fall Life Photography Positive
Related authors: Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Imogen Cunningham Robert Mapplethorpe
Photography helps people to see. Berenice Abbott
Photography People See Helps
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. Berenice Abbott
Alone Photography Walk Other Medium Imitates Some Never Up Itself Grow Grow Up
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. Berenice Abbott
More Instrument Camera Image Preservation
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Berenice Abbott
Photography Past Once Photographed Only Part Becomes Subject Represent Present
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. Berenice Abbott
Positive Life Death Creative Photography Song Word Build Living Approach Out Give Rather Does Sings Subjective Very Than Mean Act Acted Initiate
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. Berenice Abbott
Me Word Challenge First Tried City See Objective Bouncing Ball Been Whether Street Things Portrait

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