Quote – Berenice Abbott
“The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.”
- Berenice Abbott
Quote: Berenice Abbott – on passion for photography
“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.”
- Berenice Abbott – “The Berenice Abbott Protfolio,” Preface, 1976.
Quote: Berenice Abbott
“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.”
- Berenice Abbott
Quote: Berenice Abbott – on what photography is
“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 [...]
