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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the

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

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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

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What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. – Berenice Abbott

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Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day. – Author Unknown

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When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! – Ted Grant

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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

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A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both. – Author Unknown

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