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Berenice Abbott (1898-1991): American photographer. She spent time in Europe in the 1920s before moving to New York. She is most famous for her photographs of New York architecture and urban life.

Berenice Abbott Quotes.



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



Photography helps people to see. Berenice Abbott



I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. Berenice Abbott



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. Berenice Abbott



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. Berenice Abbott



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. Berenice Abbott



I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Berenice Abbott