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8 quotes by Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.
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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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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... →

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

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

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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... →

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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. In a word, I have tried to be... →

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