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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

Dorothea Lange

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Go Head Neck Need Over Passion
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Creativity Inspirational Instrument People Photography Teaching
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Exhaustion Hate Life Photography Theme
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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Along Around Body Camera Life Neck People Share Shoes Show
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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Animal Courage Encounter Quality Real
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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Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
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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Neck Over Photographer Realize Take You
You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Heart People Tree Unwelcome Welcome
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Documentaries Factual Life Photography
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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Affiuelence Face People Photograph Poor Poverty Race
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
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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Ahead Along False Know Limit Look Mean Own Photographer Photography Preconception Put
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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Breath Hope Moment Stand Still Wait Waiting
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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Ignorant Mind Open Possible Territory Unknown Wide
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
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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Advantage Being Different Disabled People Perspective

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