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.
DOROTHEA LANGEI had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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. 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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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