It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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… 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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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