“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. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.” FirstsHumansHeartMeanHas BeensArtOrderChallengesHuman BeingsCitiesMysteryStreetsPhotographyIntellectualMachinesBallsPhotographerObjectivesVisualsSensiblePortraitsSelectionFrameworkObjectivityCity StreetsBouncing Ball Author:Berenice Abbott
“Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining 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.” Would BePastFacesCitiesThousandCuriosityMy FavoriteIronyDecayEleganceMonumentTriumphantCombiningSqualorSad Face Author: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.” FirstsChallengesCitiesStreetsBallsObjectivesPortraitsCity StreetsBouncing Ball Book:Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
