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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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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

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

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams

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I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. – Ruth Bernhard

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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do. – Alex Campbell

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