THE PAST

"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th-century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s–1960s. The film Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century, which showed 200 of her black and white photographs, suggests that she was a “proud proto-feminist”; someone who was ahead of her time in feminist theory. Before the film was completed she questioned, "The world doesn't like independent women, why, I don't know, but I don't care."

Photo: THE PAST, weaver woman at a fabrics factory, Lombok island, Indonesia. (march, 2017)