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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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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