Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Ours 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.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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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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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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