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Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 - December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.
Photography helps people to see.
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.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.
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