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Berenice Abbott
6 quotes
“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.”
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: It Has to Walk Alone," Infinity magazine, 1951.
“Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage: a myriad-faceted picture containing the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.”
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Popular Photography, February 1940.
“I wanted to photograph this subject because the signs’ shrieking blatancy literally cried out for a visual record. To my mind the faded, yellowing paper and the red paint were not particularly paint,able. In black and white the signs shouted, clamored for attention, in visual anarchy. At the same time, the shrewd business sense which plastered them solid over the entire window area produced, as it were by chance, an esthetic by-product: the whole has homogeneity and variety of texture, simultaneously, which give the picture interest.”
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New Guide to Better Photography, 1953.
“The Baroness was like Jesus Christ and Shakespeare all rolled into one and perhaps she was the most influential person to me in the early part of my life.”
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, 2002.
“I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism—real life—the now.”
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Photography at the Crossroads," 1951.
“People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.”
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Art News, January 1981.