No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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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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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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