The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGEI trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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