Let us first say what photography is not. 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.
Berenice AbbottPhotography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott