Berenice Abbott Photographer Quotations

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

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

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

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about...

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it …

Photography helps people to see.