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.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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 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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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 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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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