Seneffe, Belgium 2008.' Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. 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 Abbott, in "Infinity" magazine, 1951.
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