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Quote by Berenice Abbott
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do a

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

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Photography helps people to see. – Berenice Abbott

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