US photographer.
She is best known for preserving the works of photographer EugSne Atget and for her photographic documentation of New York City in the late 1930s.
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.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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.
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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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
In "Berenice Abbott: An American Matter," ASMP Bulletin, Oct 1989.
R:
In "Berenice Abbott: An American Matter," ASMP Bulletin, Oct 1989.
A:
In "Infinity" magazine, 1951.
N:
The Berenice Abbott Protfolio," Preface, 1976.
K:
In "Berenice Abbott: An American Matter," ASMP Bulletin, Oct 1989.
