Photography helps people to see.
Interpretation
Photography enhances our perception of the world around us.
Berenice Abbott's quote highlights the transformative power of photography in shaping our understanding and appreciation of reality. It suggests that through the lens of a camera, we can observe and appreciate aspects of the world that we might otherwise overlook, revealing deeper truths and perspectives about our environment and existence.
In practice
During a presentation on the impact of visual arts, you might quote Abbott to emphasize the importance of photography.
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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.
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can take it. And it's about taking the characters in any given hour as far as you can take them, but then resetting them more or less back to zero so at the beginning of the next week, so they're still the character you know and love.
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
The most important message is to let me just focus on making the most beautiful normcore clothes, but as luxurious as possible.
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