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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.

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

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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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• Photography helps people to see.

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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.

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• I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

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• Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

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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.

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Berenice Abbott (9)

Birth:	17th July, 1898
Death:	9th December, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Photographer

About

Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. She shared an apartment on Greenwich Avenue with several others, including the writer Djuna Barnes, philosopher Kenneth Burke, and literary critic Malcolm Cowley. At first she pursued journalism, but soon became interested in theater and sculpture. In 1919 she nearly died in the influenza pandemic.

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