The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGESeeing 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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