Berenice Abbott
Date of birth: 1898-07-17
Date of death: 1991-12-09
Quotes number: 8
Nationality: American
Profession: Photographer
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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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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
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So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
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