No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGEWe know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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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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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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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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