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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

Source: The Berenice Abbott Protfolio, Preface, 1976.
-- Berenice Abbott, (Jul 17 1898-1991), US photographer; She is best known for preserving the works of photographer EugSne Atget and for her photographic documentation of New York City in the late 1930s.

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