Quotations/Quotes by Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 � December 9, 1991)

A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity. To define selection, one may say that it should be focussed on the kind of subject matter which hits