Berenice Abbott

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 objective. ”

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

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. ”

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