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.
DOROTHEA LANGEWhile 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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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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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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