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Berenice Abbott
American
Photographer
Born:
Jul 17
,
1898
Died:
Dec 9
,
1991
Before
Death
Fall
Life
Photography
Positive
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Diane Arbus
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Gordon Parks
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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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