No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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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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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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