Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
Berenice AbbottWhat to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?
Berenice AbbottPhotography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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