Berenice Abbott Quotes

United States, Photographer
July 17, 1898 – December, 9, 1991.

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), née Bernice Alice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.

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

Berenice Abbott
- Up
- Alone
- Photography

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
- Life
- She
- Jesus
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
- Life
- Time
- World
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
- Power
- Future
- Past