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.
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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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… 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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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