Berenice Abbott Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Past, Photographer

• The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

  Berenice Abbott

  Eye, Past, Excellence

  Nancy Tousley, Berenice Abbott, Glenbow Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (1982). “The Berenice Abbott portfolios”, Glenbow

• 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.

  Berenice Abbott

  Past, Cities, Curiosity

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