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
Berenice Abbott quotes about
photography philosophy mean
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. 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. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
photography years age
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
photographer impressed havens
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!
world documentaries photograph
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
photography hangover looks
What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?
photography space vision
The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.
girl nice photographer
I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.
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.
cameras photographer preservation
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
photography ideas people
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.
photography real believe
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time...Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism-real life-the now.
photography art years
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.
art photographer trouble
...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about...
photograph fine documents
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.