It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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I 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.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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