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Berenice Abbott [1898-1991] American
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Photographer


Berenice Abbott, née Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white, scientific photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.

Death, Positive, Teacher



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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. Teacher
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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Photography helps people to see.
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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. Death, Positive
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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.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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