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.
DOROTHEA LANGEOurs 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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 believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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