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Quotes about Photography

Berenice Abbott

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

by Berenice Abbott (Photographer, American , born in 1898) keywords: alone, grow, imitates, itself, medium, never, other, photography, some, up , walk

Berenice Abbott

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

by Berenice Abbott (Photographer, American , born in 1898) keywords: becomes, once, only, part, past, photographed, photography, present, represent , subject

Berenice Abbott

Photography helps people to see.

by Berenice Abbott (Photographer, American , born in 1898) keywords: helps, photography , see

Berenice Abbott

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

by Berenice Abbott (Photographer, American , born in 1898) keywords: camera, image, instrument, more , preservation

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

by Sam Abell (Photographer, American , born in 1945) keywords: alone, arts, desire, humans, moment, perfected, photography, seems, serve, stay , very

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.

by John Sexton (Photographer, American , born in 1952) keywords: beautiful, camera, elements, green, ground , vivid

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.

by John Sexton (Photographer, American , born in 1952) keywords: camera, explore, extension, inspired, natural , photography