The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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