To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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