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Berenice Abbott Quote

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

— Berenice Abbott

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Photography helps people to see.

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

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

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

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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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